3m Essay

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3.SUMMARY Construction sector mainly concentrate on 3-M principle for a substantial yield in terms of time and cost. The 3-M concept includes manpower, machine and material. In recent years many researches concentrate on improving the labour productivity witnessed the importance of labour productivity. From the review it was observed that the ordinal measurement scale 1 to 5 was used to determine the effect level and relative importance index for all factors were calculated. Few researches calculated relative importance index at 1 to 4 ordinal measurement scale. The factors affecting labour productivity in various countries presented in the review were ranked based on the relative importance index. The major five factors that affect the labour …show more content…

Therefore grouping makes it easier for one to identify the similarities and differences between them. From the review it was noted that in earlier studies there were only two main groups influencing productivity namely technological group and administrative group later due to the evolving nature and characteristics of factors affecting productivity, the number of groups increased in order to identify the significant factor relating to manpower, leadership, motivational, material/tool, supervision, project, safety, quality and external factors. Based on the relative ranking it was observed that human group and management group have high impact on affecting labour productivity in major countries like UK, India and Spain. In India and Gaza the group such as project, technology, motivational, quality and safety have adverse impact on labour productivity. Due to the grouping of factors, the relative importance on most significant factors in eachgroup can be individually analyzed and overall ranking of groups through relative importance index can be

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