Human resources development in Africa : issues and trends : focus on: measures and strategies for enhancing human resources productivity

Abstract

Labor as an economic concept, can be defined as the total requirement in mental, physical, effort to produce an output within a given period of time. It denotes the human input into productive economic activities and implies the knowledge, skills, attitudes, physical and managerial effort required to manipulate capital, technology, land, etc. to produce goods and services for human consumption.