The prevalence of stress among project managers at construction site

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 Author:	Heydari Afshar, Raheleh
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	HF Commerce
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33255/5/RahelehHeydariAfsharMFKA2013.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.332552017-09-11T06:06:21Z The prevalence of stress among project managers at construction site 2013-01 Heydari Afshar, Raheleh HF Commerce 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 is collected by questionnaire in Malaysia. The data is analyzed using the average index. 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. Whereas, some copying abilities of managers are teamwork, strategic relationship, work-life balances negotiation, exercise and refreshing. 2013-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33255/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33255/5/RahelehHeydariAfsharMFKA2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:70118?site_name=Restricted Repository masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
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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 is collected by questionnaire in Malaysia. The data is analyzed using the average index. 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. Whereas, some copying abilities of managers are teamwork, strategic relationship, work-life balances negotiation, exercise and refreshing.
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author	Heydari Afshar, Raheleh
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title	The prevalence of stress among project managers at construction site
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