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Explain five factors which determine the productivity of labour

Explain five factors which determine the productivity of labour.

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Abdullahi
1. Level of skills

The level of skills labourers possess is one of the major factors affecting productivity of labour. This is because without skills, some other activities cannot be performed efficiently. The management should therefore ensure that staffs have fast hand skills to ensure effective productivity.

2. Technology

Keeps on changing in the current world as new technologies in various fields are being introduced in the job market each day. If a lot of labour intensive productivity is used, i.e manual tools in various areas, the management should check if the work is becoming more strenuous to the staffs due to manual operations. If this is found to be so, then the management should explore ways and means of introducing the current advanced technology in the various fields which make work more easier and enjoyable hence increasing productivity due to quality of work performed.

3. Professionalism

The management should check to ensure the workers are qualified in the various professional jobs they handle. This calls for proper recruitment. If poor recruitment us is done, this may be a causative factor for poor/low productivity.

4. Decision making

This is one of the areas where management has overlooked in many organizations. Members of staff should be involved in decision making on issues regarding objectives and goals of the organization related to productivity.
By involving staffs in open discussion and seeking their views concerning productivity improvement, the management will be involved of the causative factors of lower productivity and the suggested solutions some of which they can improve to solve such problems.

5. Availability of resources

Lack of resources can hamper the productivity of staffs hence cause low productivity. The management should therefore ensure that workers are provided with enough resources to enable them perform. These resources range from human, financial, technological know-how, machinery, raw material, information among others.

6. Periodic training

This is an area of improving staff performance. Members of staff should be engaged to periodic training to enable them keep pace with the most current ways of handling their specific tasks/duties and this will motivate them and make them more efficient hence increasing productivity.

7. Attitude and mind set

If an employee has a negative attitude, labour productivity will be low and vice versa. Likewise if people have a mind set that they can never improve their productivity then productivity will never improve.
8. Working conditions
The management should check and ensure that working conditions of staffs are conducive enough to enable productivity improvement.

Dullayo answered the question on May 9, 2018 at 10:30

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