دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی اثرات ضایعات کربن بر رضایت شغلی مدیران سایت از طریق استرس شغلی - اشپرینگر 2018

Abstract

Low carbon construction has recently become an international issue as construction companies, governments, and communities have witnessed an increasing concern about the degradation of natural resources and pollution in the environment. Although literature abounds with studies investigating the positive impact of low carbon construction on decreasing the emission of carbon in the construction industry, following a low carbon practice might come into confict with job satisfaction amongst construction site managers, which in turn can negatively afect companies’ performances. This study examines the mediating efect of job stress to investigate the indirect efects of low carbon waste practices on job satisfaction. Data from a survey of 110 site managers of construction companies in Malaysia were examined through the application of the partial least squares technique. The results of the study advocates that unlike the reduce waste management practices, the two other low carbon waste practices, recycle and reuse management practices, positively and directly afected job stress. It was also revealed that only recycle waste management practices negatively and indirectly afected construction site managers’ job satisfaction via job stress. The fndings of the research presents an extent of caution for the managers of those construction companies which execute low carbon waste practices regarding the potential impact of low carbon practices on job stress and job satisfaction. From the job stress and job satisfaction points of view, the construction companies should give priority to waste reduction practices amongst low carbon waste practices.

6 Discussion and conclusion

The construction industry has been reported to be one of the most stressful areas, and a great number of people working there are under tremendous stressful pressure (Leung et al. 2008). Site managers have often highly stressful tasks because of the limited time frame, the uncertainties, and the dynamicity of the social structure in implementing construction projects (where many individuals enter and exit the projects during the year) (Leung et al. 2008). They also pointed out the efect of intense work and stress on the quality of the managers’ performance. However, there has been little research on the efect of stress on site managers and construction project managers, who are supposed to play a fundamental role in the project’s success and to deal with stressful tasks. The main purpose of the present study was to examine the impacts of LCW practices on the industrial construction manager’s job satisfaction through job stress in Malaysia’s construction companies. The fnding showed that recycle and reuse managements have a positive efect on job stress; whereas, reduce management has no efect. Regarding the indirect efect, recycle management is the only factor that has a negative efect on job satisfaction through job stress. The signifcant efect of waste reuse and recycle practices on job stress seems to be in line with the fndings of Hagen and Bogaerts (2014) and Wiezer et al. (2005) who confrmed that waste action is highly correlated with intense work. The results show that an insignifcant relationship exists between waste reduce practices and job stress. The potential reason for the insignifcant efect of reduce practices is that these practices cause less extra work for site managers compared to waste reuse and recycle practices (Shen et al. 2004).