Forecasting Productivity By Work Sampling

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 19-28

  Handa, V K ^a   Abdalla, Osama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Construction sites; learning curves; management; productivity; regression analysis; unit rates; work sampling

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SAMPLING;

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; FIELD MANAGEMENT; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; INFORMATION-ON SITE; LABOUR PRODUCTIVITIES; LEARNING CURVES; LEARNING RATES; PROJECTION MODELS;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 5844239160     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446198900000003     Document Type: Article

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