Factors Affect Workplace Stress of Executive Level Employees at Construction Sector

Abstract

The Sri Lanka construction market size was valued at $12.8 billion by 2022. Easing of foreign exchange liquidity pressure, strong remittances, improved tourism earnings, and rising private investment in the construction industry is driving the industry‘s output. The other element contributing to the Sri Lanka construction market growth is investments in transport, housing, mining, industrial and tourism projects. The research endeavor investigated that, ‗Factors affect workplace stress of executive-level employees at construction sector with special reference to Access PLC‘. The general objective of the study was to find out the factors affecting employees work stress in construction sector and to identify the factors affect job stress of executive level employees at selected organization, to determine the relationship between identified factors and job stress, to find out the overall level of job stress among executive level of employees and to provide management recommendations are specific objectives of the study. As a quantitative study, data analysis was done through SPSS software version 25 testing both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics such as correlation and regression analysis. Having 150 executive-level employees, 100 was the sample size. In order to describe independent variables, work overload, work-life balance, physical working environment, job security and co-workers‘ behavior are described the employee job stress of dependent variable. The data collection instrument of questionnaire was demonstrated in simple random sampling method and based on those variables five hypotheses were developed. The questionnaire contained demographic data of sample profile including questions for dependent and independent variables as close-ended method. Five-point Likert scale was used to rate the answers. As an online survey, Google form of questionnaire was demonstrated to collect the data among executive-level employees who appear in different locations of sites. The analysis revealed that, except co-workers‘ behavior and job security other three variables had significant and moderate positive relationship with the work stress. The work overload, work-life balance, and physical working environment were expressed impact on work stress. However, co-workers‘ behavior and job security did not yield any impact on work stress. Thereby, study accepted all developed alternative hypotheses of work overload, work-life balance, and physical working environment while rejecting job security and co-workers‘ behavior hypotheses. Since, the study presented recommendations for each variable based on the findings in order to decrease the work stress of executive-level employees in the construction industry.