Factors affecting employee productivity in the UAE construction industry

Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2009 - Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 555-564

  Ailabouni, Nabil ^a   Painting, Noel ^a   Ashton, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Performance; Productivity; Regression

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES; EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY; FIELD DATA; FORMWORK; GROUP DYNAMICS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MATERIAL AVAILABILITY; MINITAB; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTIVITY CHANGES; PRODUCTIVITY DATA; PRODUCTIVITY RATE; REGRESSION; REGRESSION MODEL; SEVERITY INDEX; UNDERLYING FACTORS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

CLIMATE CONTROL; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DYNAMICS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84861017306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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