Impact of Stress on the Performance of Construction Project Managers
By M. Leung, Y. Chan, P. Olomolaiye. 2008
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The work of construction project managers (CPMs) is often highly stressful, due to time pressures, and due to the uncertainties and the dynamic social structure involved in construction projects. This study aims to investigate the impact of stress on the performance of CPMs. Correlation analysis and structural equation modeling are employed to uncover the relationships between different types of stress (i.e., objective stress, burnout, and physiological stress) and the work performances (i.e., task performance, interpersonal performance, and organizational performance) of CPMs. Data were collected from 108 CPMs who work in a variety of construction sectors, including prime contractors, subcontractors, developers, consultant firms, and the public sector. Results showed that (1) objective stress reduces the task performance of CPMs while burnout can have a positive effect on it; (2) interpersonal performance is maximized with a moderate level of objective stress (i.e., an inverted-U-shaped relationship betw...
Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
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Citations in the corpus
- Occupational stress and job demand, control and support factors among construction project consultants (2014, background): “In contrast, Leung et al. (2008a) provide no evidence for a curvilinear relationship between stress and performance, but report that the task performance of construction project managers is inversely and linearly linked to stress, and suggest that the stress levels of construction project managers…”
- What It Takes and Costs To Be an Ambidextrous Manager (2015, background): “Because ambidextrous managers find it difficult to switch off from work, their high levels of cognitive strain can be regarded as a critical indication of forthcoming psychological exhaustion that could cause serious harm to their psychological and physiological well-being if this persists over time”
- Job burnout of construction project managers in China: A cross-sectional analysis (2017, background): “Leung has conducted a series of job stress studies on different types of practitioners in the construction industry (Leung et al., 2008a, 1273F. Yang et al. / International Journal of Project Management 35 (2017) 1272–1287”