The impact of stress in site management effectiveness

Abstract

This paper reports on the ® ndings of a piece of research work aimed at investigating and analysing the impact of stress on the effectiveness of site managers as leaders. The sample of the study included semi-structured interviews with 71 site managers at the sharp end of production and their superiors. The investigation was more speci® cally concerned with the impact of three types of stressors, namely boss stress, job stress and environment± job stress. It was revealed, among other ® ndings, that the impact of stress on site managers followed to a great extent the typical inverted U-shaped pattern. Moreover, the results showed that the impact of stress is contingent to a large extent upon the type of stressors.

Investigating the Impacts of Job Stress on the University Librarians within the Persepective of Human Resource Management: The Case of North Cyprus

“…In a preliminary study investigating the impact of stress upon construction site managers in the UK, construction site managers frequently cited 10 sources of stress. Top of the list was task clarity or, more specifically, inadequacy of communication flow, as illustrated in Table 8 (Djebarni, 1996).…”

“…This research, however, was not concernedwithsources of stress. Its focus was rather on the impact of certain stressors on leadership effectiveness (Djebarni, 1996).…”

“…Source of stress percentages Adapted from Sutherland and Davidson (1989 ) Example of types of stress is provided by from Holt (1993 ) in Djebarni, R. ( 1996 ). Nonstandard working hours (shift work), deadlines, time pressure, work-load, overload, responsibility load, monotony, poor labour-management relations sources are important for this article.…”

Aportación al estudio de la satisfacción laboral de los profesionales técnicos del sector de la construcción: una aplicación cualitativa en la Comunidad Valenciana.

“…Además, otro grupo de autores investigan un elemento muy relacionado con la satisfacción laboral: el estrés experimentado por los profesionales de la construcción en su trabajo, sus causas, consecuencias y las estrategias desarrolladas para sobrellevarlo (Sang et al 2007a(Sang et al y 2007bCampbell, 2006;Love y Edwards, 2005;Lingard y Francis, 2004;Haynes y Love, 2004;Djebarni, 1996;Sommerville y Langford, 1994;Sutherland y Davidson, 1993Davidson y Sutherland, 1992;Langford, 1988), a la vez que las diferencias de género al respecto (Sang et al, 2007b;Loosemore y Waters, 2004). A continuación revisaré las principales conclusiones de estos trabajos.…”

“…Although I terribly miss all the action, chaos, teamwork and instant gratification achieved on site, I feel my stress levels and resting periods are where they should be". Lingard y Francis (2004: 998) La investigación ha dado a conocer que los jefes de obra de la construcción experimentan un nivel de estrés ocupacional creciente y superior al de los directivos de línea de otras industrias (Campbell, 2006;Haynes y Love, 2004;Djebarni, 1996;Sutherland y Davidson, 1993Davidson y Sutherland, 1992;Langford, 1988;Theorell, 1976 78 ). Esto es debido a la naturaleza y características de la industria en la que operan -un ambiente dominado por hombres que promueve la competitividad y el conflicto, la producción de prototipos que requiere altos niveles de coordinación y unas "malas" condiciones de trabajo en obra que pueden llevar a experimentar problemas de calidad y seguridad.…”