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The prevalence of stress among project manager at construction sites

As the business environment is increasingly subjected to fast changing forces which include increased competition, the pressure for quality and advanced technology, innovation, and an increase in the pace of doing business, the demands on managers have grown equally dramatically. It is therefore ess...

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Main Authors: Abdul Hamid, Abdul Rahim, Afshar, Raheleh Heydari
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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spelling my.utm.611582017-03-15T00:45:04Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61158/ The prevalence of stress among project manager at construction sites Abdul Hamid, Abdul Rahim Afshar, Raheleh Heydari TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) As the business environment is increasingly subjected to fast changing forces which include increased competition, the pressure for quality and advanced technology, innovation, and an increase in the pace of doing business, the demands on managers have grown equally dramatically. It is therefore essential to develop strategies for managing stress to give managers the required additional energy to handle particularly difficult and stressful work situations. It is important that organizations provide the assistance and support on the issue of stress as part of their proactive approach to managing managers’ health and safety, by drawing up contingency plans, and to have the necessary infrastructure to deal with such problems. This study investigates the strategies that can be implemented in organizations to reduce stressful situations affecting managers. The main objectives of this study are to identify the source of stress for project manager at workplace, to explore the consequence of stress to the project manager at workplace and to examine the project manager coping ability from stress at workplace. The methodology of this study includes literature reviews, data collection and data analysis. Data was collected by questionnaire survey in Malaysia. The data was analyzed using the average index formula. From the study, some of the factors for source of stress are work environment, colleagues conflict, work cope ability and individualism. The consequences of stress are blood pressure, headache, unusual tiredness, work accident, work pressure, smoking, alcoholic drinks, memory loss and sick leave. Finally, some copying abilities of managers are teamwork, strategic relationship, work-life balances negotiation, exercise and refreshing. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61158/1/AbdulRahimAbdul2014_ThePrevalenceofStressamongProjectManager.pdf Abdul Hamid, Abdul Rahim and Afshar, Raheleh Heydari (2014) The prevalence of stress among project manager at construction sites. In: National Seminar on Civil Engineering Research SEPKA 2014, 14-15 April, 2014, Skudai, Johor.
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Abdul Hamid, Abdul Rahim
Afshar, Raheleh Heydari
The prevalence of stress among project manager at construction sites
description As the business environment is increasingly subjected to fast changing forces which include increased competition, the pressure for quality and advanced technology, innovation, and an increase in the pace of doing business, the demands on managers have grown equally dramatically. It is therefore essential to develop strategies for managing stress to give managers the required additional energy to handle particularly difficult and stressful work situations. It is important that organizations provide the assistance and support on the issue of stress as part of their proactive approach to managing managers’ health and safety, by drawing up contingency plans, and to have the necessary infrastructure to deal with such problems. This study investigates the strategies that can be implemented in organizations to reduce stressful situations affecting managers. The main objectives of this study are to identify the source of stress for project manager at workplace, to explore the consequence of stress to the project manager at workplace and to examine the project manager coping ability from stress at workplace. The methodology of this study includes literature reviews, data collection and data analysis. Data was collected by questionnaire survey in Malaysia. The data was analyzed using the average index formula. From the study, some of the factors for source of stress are work environment, colleagues conflict, work cope ability and individualism. The consequences of stress are blood pressure, headache, unusual tiredness, work accident, work pressure, smoking, alcoholic drinks, memory loss and sick leave. Finally, some copying abilities of managers are teamwork, strategic relationship, work-life balances negotiation, exercise and refreshing.
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