Towards Improving Artisan and Craftsmen Productivity
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The construction industry plays a noteworthy part in contribution to the gross domestic
product of developing countries. Nigeria being a developing country, the construction industry is highly
labour intensive labour intensive. For the purpose of this study, the data collection instrument used was
structured questionnaire making use of the 5-point Likert scale. Sample size of 52 was chosen from
population frame of 60 construction firms was adopted for the study. The study found out among other
things that there should be periodic increase in wages of artisans and craftsmen, schedule should be mad
flexible, provision of incentives and motivation, strategies such as periodic assessment of artisans skill
should be implemented, stakeholders to have a say in artisan training and organizing training programs by
construction firms. To this end the need for highly performing craftsmen construction industry is not
debatable, Craftsmen are the major employee of the construction industry, since most of the work in the
construction industry has to be done manually by hand,therefore they deserve to be well equipped and
given the best of the training on account of their contributions.
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Q Science (General), TH Building construction