Improving the production efficiency is the most challenging issue in both developed and developing countries. Building construction projects are affected by many problems such as cost, time, quality, safety etc. Now a day's competitive environment of building construction forces construction companies to increase their labour productivity values in order to keep their position in the industry. Therefore, identification and analysis of factors that affect labour productivity in building construction become a crucial issue. In the academic literature, there are many researches that investigated these factors. Through a systematic review of selected research papers from academic journals in construction management, major research areas such as factors affecting labour productivity, methods for labour productivity improvement, construction labour productivity trends and comparison are identified.