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Estimation of Output in Manual Labor Activities: The Forestry Sector as Example

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Abstract

Apud and Valdes [1] and Apud, Gutierrez [2] developed an area of research were they proposes study different activities in forestry sector and determine which element were related with the output of the workers. Planting, pruning, site clearing, commercial harvesting and harvesting were the main activities that were studies. The main objective was set up standard references for output in forestry work, since the output depends on the workload that a worker can reach in a sustainable way without fatigue or other risks and on the difficulties, they can found to carry out his job, mainly related to the type of trees, climate and ground. In other words, in forestry there is no chance to demand of a worker always the same amount of work. This puts a difficulty to calculate incentives and salaries, especially when workers are paid by piece rate [3]. Therefore is not enough to carry out work-studies, having only subjective criteria to choose the workers and to decide after if they are doing the job at the right pace.

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Literature
1.
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Metadata
Title
Estimation of Output in Manual Labor Activities: The Forestry Sector as Example
Authors
Felipe Meyer
Elias Apud
Copyright Year
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96068-5_46

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