Determinants of Work Stress for Construction Industry Employees in Malaysia
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.200514.021How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- work stress, job demand, job control, job support, safety and health practitioner, construction industry
- Abstract
Work stress has been identified as a major factor affecting company’s success because it affects the productivity and efficiency of the employees. In Malaysia, in light of industrial revolution 4.0 (IR4.0), work stress has been observed to continue happening within the construction industry even though they begin using advancement of technology to help ease employees related tasks. This study examines whether the factors suggested in the theory of Job Demand, Control and Support (JDCS) determine work stress of employees in the construction industry. A survey was carried out on a group of safety and health practitioners in the construction industry they play an essential role in enhancing efficiency on the wellbeing arrangements of the workplace. Statistical analyses carried out on the three variables, namely the, job demand, job control and job support determined work stress. The findings indicate the importance and usefulness of the JDCS theory in explaining why employees experience work stress. The findings imply the need of how IR4.0 could cope with the three determinants in their workplace; namely, to cope with their job demand as well to enable them to believe that they have all the control and support they need to perform their work without stress.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Jignyasu Prafulla Joshi AU - Lavinsaa Paramasivan AU - Nabsiah Abdul Wahid AU - Hemalatha Somu PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/18 TI - Determinants of Work Stress for Construction Industry Employees in Malaysia BT - Proceedings of the First ASEAN Business, Environment, and Technology Symposium (ABEATS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 93 EP - 95 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200514.021 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200514.021 ID - Joshi2020 ER -