Análise de produtividade de mão de obra e seus fatores influenciadores: estudo de caso

Abstract

The construction industry is going through a time when the costs of projects are increasing due to high of land and labor prices. In an attempt to contain this increase, managers are investing in planning and production control. This paper makes a study of labor’s productivity on an enterprise located in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil, analyzing the daily behavior of productivity in specific activities from measurements and calculations of productivity indexes. The paper also considered an analysis of some influencing factors of labor and its impact on productivity. The results are presented in numerical and graphical means, to facilitate data analysis. From the study of behavior, the analysis allows the use of these data in various stages of this building and future buildings, such as planning, replanning, price composition, definition of work packages, proving the importance of periodic measurements of labor’s productivity.