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Development of Labor Productivity Index for Steel Construction (철골공사의 노동생산지수 개발)

  • Kang Byoung-Ryoul;Kim Ki-Sung;Um Ik-Joon;Koo Kyo-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.353-357
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    • 2004
  • The construction competition is more deepened with the enterprise possibility increase which it follows in the regulation relaxation back against the construction market penetration which carries and the instability of market is added an extra weight and it solves the aspect where also the profitability which is caused by with low price bidding decreases. Against a productivity with the overcome plan it is researched plentifully and the far for a productivity improvement, there is so far to construction, the productivity being used with only include meaning, is to a practical affairs and the application ver)r as the level which is feeble is a possibility of doing. It is like that and the research develops the producing district possibility of new steel-frame work and in the actuality which sees the production volume of steel-frame work and a construction accomplishment process effectively and to be right numerical figures it does it plans it controls and manages the place ultimate objective which it puts.

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College Students' Workload and Productivity for Different Types of Tasks before and during COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S.

  • Tian, Chi;Wu, Hongyue;Chen, Yunfeng
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.500-507
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    • 2022
  • COVID-19 pandemic forces college education to be rapidly switched from face-to-face education into remote education. Two inconsistent findings exist in previous study about remote learning. First, studies before COVID-19 pandemic found remote learning is an effective method, which provided students with higher achievement and improved their work-life balance. However, studies showed remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic is not as effective as expected because of technical issues, lack of motivations and even mental health issues. Second, findings from studies about remote learning impacts on workload and productivity during COVID-19 are also inconsistent. Therefore, this study aims to quantitatively measure college students' workload and productivity during COVID-19 of different types of tasks to provide a comprehensive and latest evaluation on remote learning. The findings of this study show remote learning slightly increases college students' total listening and speaking tasks workload, total reading and writing tasks workload. Furthermore, phone call, in-person meeting, online meeting and email workload increase significantly in remote learning. However, productivity for both listening and speaking, reading and writing tasks decreases after remote learning but no significant changes of productivity are found.

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Application of BIM-integrated Construction Simulation to Construction Production Planning

  • Chang, SooWon;Son, JeongWook;Jeong, WoonSeong;Yi, June-Seong
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.639-640
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    • 2015
  • Traditional construction planning based on historical data and heuristic adjustment can no longer incorporate all the operational details and guarantee the expected performance. The variation between the expected and the actual production leads to cost overruns or delay. Although predicting reliable productivity on construction site is getting more important, the difficulty of this increases. In this regard, this paper suggested to develop BIM-integrated simulation framework. This framework could predict productivity dynamics by considering factors affecting on construction productivity at operational phase. We developed the following processes; 1) enabling a BIM model to produce input data for simulation; 2) developing the construction operation simulation; 3) running simulation using BIM data and obtaining productivity results. The BIM-integrated simulation framework was tested with structural steel erection model because steel erection work is one of the most critical process influencing on the whole construction budget and duration. We could improve to predict more dynamic productivity from this framework, and this reliable productivity helps construction managers to optimize resource allocation, increase schedule reliability, save storage cost, and reduce material loss.

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Analysis on Productivity and Efficiency of Blueberry Farming (블루베리 농가의 경영 효율성 및 생산성 분석)

  • Kim, Won-Bin;Um, Ji-Bum
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.499-516
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    • 2022
  • Blueberry producers' management is failing as a result of the price decline caused by an increase in blueberry imports and the accompanying deterioration in management. Consequently, an endeavor was undertaken to verify the measurement and impact from the standpoint of efficiency and productivity of blueberry management, and to offer an indication of management improvement through analysis. Using the Rural Development Administration's income survey data, the data for twenty-four blueberry farms was analyzed. First, the management effectiveness of blueberry cultivators was evaluated. Using the CCR model (0.7297) and the BCC model (08148), the efficiency of a farm was examined. When the efficiency is one, CCR is ten and BCC is fifteen, and in overall, it was found to be ineffective, the efficiency declined from 2018 to 2019, but climbed again in 2020, according to the annual analysis. The MPI index was then used to examine productivity. T2's MPI index was 1.3338, whereas T3's MPI index was 0.8896, demonstrating a considerable decline in TC. This indicates that technological progress is not being accomplished, necessitating the need for countermeasures. In order to improve the management efficiency of blueberry producers, it is necessary to reduce costs and improve receivable prices through producer organization, and to actively introduce new technologies.

A Study on the Effective Management Methods of Craftsmen through Job Environment and Productivity Analysis of Construction Craft Workers (건설기능인력의 업무환경 및 생산성 분석을 통한 기능인력의 효율적인 관리방안에 관한 연구)

  • Ha, Gee-Joo;Ha, Min-Su;Yi, Dong-Ryul
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Structure & Construction
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    • v.35 no.12
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    • pp.173-180
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    • 2019
  • Construction work is a labor-intensive industry, which is required systematic production activities using materials, manpower, and equipment. Among them, manpower resources play a very important role in achieving efficiently production in the organization. Construction work is highly dependent on construction craft workers, and the level of proficiency can be directly related to the construction productivity and quality. However, a rapidly aging construction craft workers in Korea, is being replaced by a foreign construction craft workers because of advoidance of new laborers in the construction site. In the future, if the continuous development and management of construction manpower is not made properly, it may be lead to adverse effects such as setbacks in production, delayed completion, faulty construction, industrial disasters, and decreased productivity in construction site. In this study, it was proposed four important factors for work capacity management of construction craft workers. These were ensuring of physical strength through the health management of construction craft workers, securing of proficiency through career management, ensuring of productivity through work capacity and establing of informatization through work capacity management. By introducing a systematic system, it is possible to improve construction craft workers' professionalism, enhancing the level of welfare, reflecting the realities of labor costs, increasing the quantitative and qualitative levels of construction craft workers, Futhermore it was demanded the continued interest and policy support for the realization of effective management of construction craft workers.

A Process of Selecting Productivity Influencing Factors For Forecasting Construction Productivity (생산성 예측을 위한 생산성 영향요인 선정 프로세스)

  • Lim, Jae-In;Kim, Yea-Sang;Kim, Young-Suk;Kim, Sang-Bum
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.92-100
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    • 2008
  • Productivity is acknowledged as a very important factor for successful construction projects. Various data items collected daily form a construction site can be used for monitoring its productivity by analyzing them. However, no analytical methods for that purpose have been established in the domestic construction industry yet. Previous researches that utilized OLAP and data mining to analyze the factors that affect the productivity did not do well with predicting future cases with sufficient reliability. This research therefore proposes a new analytical process which is capable of figuring out the factors that would affect the productivity of future projects, through qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data collected from past projects.

A Preliminary Studty on the Efficient Management Manpower Staffing According to the Building Size -Focused on Office Buildings- (건축규모에 따른 관리인력의 효율적 배치에 관한 기초연구 -오피스 건물을 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Won-Suk;Kim, Shin-Eun;Kim, Sun-Kuk;Lee, Dong-Hoon;Won, Il-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.191-194
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    • 2010
  • Construction companies are now trying a variety of cost-cutting strategies in the midst of recent slump of construction market. Notably, contract workers and local hires are accounting for increasing portion of management manpower as a part of their cost-reduction drive. However, construction site manpower researches to date have focused primarily on productivity analysis of site laborers, with little attention to the productivity of site management resources. This study aims to analyze the staffing status of office building construction site management manpower in reference to project size. Conclusions herein will provide basic inputs for subsequent attempts to build a model to enable efficient staffing of construction site management manpower.

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A Study on the Productivity Trends of Regional Health Care Resource Uses in South Korea (지역 의료자원 이용의 생산성 변화 분석)

  • Dong, Jae-Yong;Lee, Kwang-Soo
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2016
  • Objectives : This study purposed to analyze the productivity trends of regional health care resource uses in South Korea. Methods : Data was provided from the regional health care statistics by the National Health Insurance Service(NHIS) and collected from 2011 to 2014 at the 226 administrative regions such as Si(city in Korean), Gun(county in Korean), Gu(district in Korean). Productivity trend was analyzed with Malmquist Productivity Index(MPI). Input variables were the number of medical personnels, facilities, and major medical equipments. Output variables were the number of inpatient and outpatients in model A, and the amount of inpatient and outpatient reimbursements in model B. Results : In model A, the productivity of 62 regions were increased but it was decreased in 164 regions. In model B, the productivity of 123 regions were increased but it was decreased in 123 regions. Conclusions : If these trends were continued, there will be problems with the efficiency of national regional healthcare resource utilization. Health policy makers will require to focus in solving this phenomenon.

Identification and Prioritization of the Driving Factors of Labor Productivity in the Melli Bank: Iranian Scenario

  • Bahrami, Mostafa;Salehi, Mahdi;Akbarzadeh, Mohsen;Morsali, Alireza
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.5-10
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    • 2013
  • Purpose - Labor productivity is extremely important to the profitability and competitive advantage of organizations that provide services to customers, such as banks. This study investigates the factors driving labor productivity in Iran's Melli Bank. Research design, data, methodology - Five managerial, psychosocial, cultural, and individual factors are identified and their relative importance for labor productivity prioritized using AHP. The required data are then collected through a questionnaire designed for a pairwise comparison of the driving factors of labor productivity and their subcategories. Results - The study outcomes reveal that the managerial and individual factors are the most important. Specifically, the most important factors in increasing labor productivity in the branches of Melli Bank are having a competent supervisor, promotion opportunities, fair working conditions, conscientiousness, the right tools, and a correspondence between skills and work. Conclusions - Implementing AHP using Expert Choice software revealed that, among the driving factors of labor productivity (i.e., managerial, psychosocial, cultural, environmental, and personal), managerial factors were considered the most important by the respondents.

The Relationship of Value Added to Personnel Expenses and Operating Margin in Hospitals (의료기관의 인건비투자효율과 의료이익률 간의 관계)

  • Jung, Yong-Mo
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.77-85
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    • 2011
  • The study intends to conduct an analysis of relations between efficiency of investment to human resources and the operating margin in hospitals. The analyzed results are as follows: First, it is found out that an index related to labor productivity(the monthly value added per bed, the value added ratio to gross revenue), and an index for efficiency of human resources(value added to personnel expenses), do not have a significant difference by years. Second, labor productivity, indicating the efficiency of human resources, does not have a significant difference between regions and between hospital types. But there is a significant difference according to types of establishment: private hospitals have higher labor productivity(efficiency of human resources) than corporate hospitals. The hospital size is small have significantly higher labor productivity. As a result of a follow-up check, it is found out that there is separation between a group with more than 200 beds and a group with less than 200 beds. Third, at the relations between the indices related to value-added productivity and the operating margin that the higher the value added ratio to gross revenue and the higher labor productivity, the higher the operating margin. Especially, labor productivity(value added to personnel expenses), an index for the efficiency of human resources, out of all the indices related value added productivity, has the most significant influence on the operating margin.