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ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
卷 29, 期 9, 页码 3547-3573出版社
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/ECAM-12-2020-1066
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Construction site; Civil engineers; Burnout; Structural equation modelling
This study investigated the critical predictors of burnout among civil engineers at construction sites in Turkey, identifying organizational injustice, competitive pricing, and lack of contract management as key factors affecting burnout. Potential solutions and recommendations were proposed to reduce burnout among civil engineers, based on these predictors.
Purpose The construction industry has always been regarded as a stressful and task-driven industry with high levels of work pressure. When the stressful situations are prolonged, job burnout becomes unavoidable for construction professionals. The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the critical predictors of burnout among civil engineers at construction sites in Turkey and identify the impact of those determined burnout predictors on various burnout dimensions. Design/methodology/approach The possible causes of burnout for civil engineers at construction sites were determined using an extensive literature review and were further studied using a questionnaire. The obtained data were analysed statistically using SPSS 22 and LISREL 8.7 software. Correlation analysis, exploratory and confirmatory analysis, and structural equation modelling were performed on this collected data, and a structural model was developed. Findings Three critical factors affecting burnout levels of civil engineers in construction sites were determined; among them organisational injustice and competitive pricing and lack of contract management were identified as the critical predictors of burnout in the emotional-exhaustion and cynicism dimensions. Based on these predictors, potential solutions and recommendations are proposed that are anticipated to decrease the burnout among civil engineers at construction sites. Originality/value Although there are several works of research regarding the burnout among construction professionals, there is limited research that has provided insight into the specific factors causing burnout among civil engineers. This research presents a structural model of the predictors obtained by a confirmatory factor analysis for decreasing the burnout level of civil engineers at construction sites. The current study represents the first comprehensive quantitative determination of the factors and predictors of burnout among civil engineers at construction sites in Turkey.
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