title: Effect of skill on work productivity and physical body dimensions of the Oraon tea garden labourers of the Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, India.
abstract: Skill is one of the factors influencing labour productivity of manual labour. The present study aims to find out the possible relationship between skill and productivity and between skill and physical body dimension among the tea garden labourers of Northern West Bengal, India. Skill was measured by indigenously devised test protocols developed only for this purpose. Productivity or labour output was measured in terms of amount of tea leaves (in weight) plucked in a day by an individual. Physical body dimension was recorded in terms of a list of anthropometric traits. The results show an inconsistent relationship between skill and productive output and a non-significant relationship between skill and physical body dimensions. However, there are some trends that skill is high in younger individuals and low skill in females is associated with relatively high fat accumulation in the body.
authors.affiliation: Biological Anthropology Unit, Indian Statistical Insitute, Calcutta, India. rsubrata@isical.ac.in
authors.forename: Subrata K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Arupendra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mozumdar
authors.forename: Sujata
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000383:Agriculture; D001824:Body Constitution / Q000502:physiology*; D004526:Efficiency / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013662:Tea; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
chemical_list: D013662:Tea