How to Improve Quality and Productivity in a Construction Company

What Is Productivity? October 19th, 2005 by Steve Pavlina Email this article to a friend In this post we’re going to take a deep look into the concept of productivity. Here’s my personal definition of productivity: Productivity = Value / Time (productivity equals value divided by time) By this definition there are two primary ways of increasing productivity: 1) Increase the value created 2) Decrease the time required to create that value You can complicate this definition by including…

How can leaders motivate staff in order to improve productivity and job satisfaction? The purpose of this essay is to highlight the use of management theories in relation to productivity and job satisfaction. This essay shall discuss how leaders can motivate employees in order to improve the overall productivity and job satisfaction. I will be looking at theories in relation to how they are categorised, also how different management theories can be implemented by a leader. The essay will analyse…

guarantee the high quality services, it is important for companies to have an effective internal control of the restaurant. Yoshinoya, as one of the largest Japanese restaurant chain and global brand with more than 1,400 worldwide locations, announced four new restaurant openings in their core U.S. market of California, Texas and New York. In order to stay competitive in the market, Yoshinoya hired the professional consulting group to provide advice of how to improve service quality. This white paper…

UTILITY OF QUALITY CONTROL TOOLS AND STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY IN AN INDUSTRY RALLABANDI SRINIVASU 1 G. SATYANARAYANA REDDY 2 SRIKANTH REDDY RIKKULA 3 1. Professor & Director in St. Mary’s Group of Institutions, Hyderabad, India. 2. Professor & HOD-MBA in CMR College of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India 3. Associate Professor, MCA Dept. St.Mary’s College of Engg. & Technology, Hyderabad…

data warehouse is it improves the productivity by redesigning business process and work. It is challenging and technical undertaking because data comes from different sources and systems. There are some other organisational issues like sponsorship maintenance, scope avoidance and political issues. Because of these reasons data warehouse project get over budget, do not meet requirement and behind scheduled or completely failure. Watson et al. (pp 44-55) studied eight companies which had experienced…

The Need for Quality Metrics in Green Construction Companies: Analysis of Quality Differences in Traditional and Sustainable Building Practices Susie Williamson susangwilliamson@hotmail.com 9470 N. Little Cottonwood Rd. Sandy, Utah 84092 Dr. Leo Shelton PM 588 Fall Session 2, 2010 Introduction Conrad Construction Industries is a residential and commercial contracting firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah consisting of 100 employees, in addition to governing a board of directors and multiple…

Introduction This report is going to explain my opinion on how testing software has the ability to significantly improve the quality. I have read certain books that give different reasons for the purpose of testing and how well it actually improves the software, and will reference these as I use them throughout the report. Firstly my opinion on testing is that from experience, I have found testing to help greatly towards improving the quality of the software as it basically breaks down the frame and…

Construction Productivity in a Project Introduction Road projects are one of the key areas of construction engineering; it is essential to understand the main processes involved in such a project, the type of work force involved and machinery in order to achieve the maximum productivity in the projects. This project paper aims at describing the problems that lower productivity rates in the construction process and how to eradicate the future challenges in order to improve productivity. Road construction…

work should carry out and the best timing to perform that task. So it focus on not only high production the efficiency of the production so called productivity. Influence of Work Study in Improving Productivity In order to recognize the function of work study, need to classify method study and that of time study. Method study is typically used to improve the method of performing work. It is applicable for new and existing task , method study focus to find more efficient and effective methods of doing…

happiness on a number of workplace outcomes. There are various claims about the effect of happiness on productivity. Some people think that the enjoyment of life can produce involvement and smooth interaction. Therefore, it can boost productivity. Others rather expect that happiness will reduce the motivation to seek improvement and make them passive and dull. Comparing with other organization, construction industry has the highest need of human resources for all hierarchical levels. It is one of the largest…