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Factors affecting the motivation of Iranian construction operatives
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In this article, a study conducted with the aim of identifying factors affecting motivation of Iranian construction operatives was reported, which indicated that the five most important motivation factors of Iranian Construction operatives are, in descending order: "fairness of pay", "incentive and financial rewards", "on-time payment", "good working facilities", and "dsafetyrd".About:
This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 1997-03-01. It has received 54 citations till now.read more
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Framework for project managers to manage construction safety
TL;DR: In this article, a policy, process, personnel and incentive (3P+I) framework is proposed to help project managers manage construction site safety, and a survey of contractors in Singapore showed that site accidents are more likely to happen when there are inadequate company policies, unsafe practices, poor attitudes of construction personnel, poor management commitment and insufficient safety knowledge and training of workers.
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Effect of basic motivational factors on construction workforce productivity in turkey
TL;DR: In this paper, the most effective factors group is organizational factors and organizational factors are determined, defined, and examined in detail for determining, defining, and examining the factors influencing construction labour productivity in Turkey.
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Demotivating factors influencing the productivity of civil engineering projects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified the most significant demotivators involved in demotivation and their effects on the productivity of workers in civil engineering projects in Hong Kong, with material availability, overcrowded work areas and rework being the most important factors.
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Thermal environment and construction workers' productivity: some evidence from Thailand
TL;DR: In this paper, a model for estimating productivity for three physically different construction tasks is proposed and the accuracy of the developed model estimates is then examined against data collected from four construction sites in the Northeast of Thailand.
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Barriers to implementing reverse logistics in South Australian construction organisations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the perceptions of the barriers to implementing reverse logistics practices in South Australian (SA) construction organisations, and identify the best practices and drivers that could be used as a "road map" for developing appropriate solutions for the successful implementation of RL.
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A Theory of Human Motivation
Abstract: 1. The integrated wholeness of the organism must be one of the foundation stones of motivation theory. 2. The hunger drive (or any other physiological drive) was rejected as a centering point or model for a definitive theory of motivation. Any drive that is somatically based and localizable was shown to be atypical rather than typical in human motivation. 3. Such a theory should stress and center itself upon ultimate or basic goals rather than partial or superficial ones, upon ends rather than means to these ends. Such a stress would imply a more central place for unconscious than for conscious motivations. 4. There are usually available various cultural paths to the same goal. Therefore conscious, specific, local-cultural desires are not as fundamental in motivation theory as the more basic, unconscious goals. 5. Any motivated behavior, either preparatory or consummatory, must be understood to be a channel through which many basic needs may be simultaneously expressed or satisfied. Typically an act has more than one motivation. 6. Practically all organismic states are to be understood as motivated and as motivating. 7. Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of prepotency. That is to say, the appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need. Man is a perpetually wanting animal. Also no need or drive can be treated as if it were isolated or discrete; every drive is related to the state of satisfaction or dissatisfaction of other drives. 8. Lists of drives will get us nowhere for various theoretical and practical reasons. Furthermore any classification of motivations
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Management and motivation
Victor H. Vroom,Edward L. Deci +1 more
TL;DR: There are three main approaches to the subject of motivation: paternalistic in nature, the more a worker is rewarded, the harder he will work; second approach assumes that a person will be motivated to work if rewards and penalties are tied directly to his performance; and third approach is called "participative management" in which the incentives for effective performance are in the job itself or in the individual's relationship with members of his working team.
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Factors influencing U.K. construction clients' choice of contractor
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the findings of a survey of 53 major U.K. construction client organizations, which revealed their perceived importance of factors influencing their choice of contractors.
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Improving Motivation and Productivity on Large Projects
TL;DR: The preliminary findings of a Department of Energy sponsored study employing questionnaires and interviews with over 600 craftsmen and foremen from five nuclear power plant construction projects indicated 20 to 25 lost manhours per week per man due to delays resulting from material and tool availability, overcrowded work areas, crew interfacing, inspection, and instructions as discussed by the authors.
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