Factors causing work stress on contractor employees in Padang city

• Main Authors: Hidayat, Benny, Syauki, Ilham Ahmad, Suraji, Akhmad
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Construction management; Contractors; Decision making; Employees; Factor analysis; Workers
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0115910

Construction Management Engineers often deal with the safety of every employee in construction work, because workers are the most dominant and the main motor in resources in the construction world. The quality of a worker can be determined technically or mentally. Good or bad mental workers depend on how the ability of workers to deal with work pressures. Stressed workers will reduce the quality of their work, which will impact work productivity and the success of a construction project. Most work accidents are triggered by workers who experience stress due to decreased concentration of workers. This research was conducted by collecting stress-causing factors obtained from descriptive analysis and then used as questionnaire variables and then processed by factor analysis methods. This study aims to determine the factors that cause stress among contractor employees in the city of Padang. The study was conducted on 51 respondents with 40 variables causing stress factors and obtained 2 factors consisting of 10 variables through factor analysis. The first factor consists of five variables, namely: no career advancement or never given a promotion, bad relationship with superiors, employees’ opinions are not listened to in decision making, superiors do not give clear instructions, superiors in the company in leading create a sense of tension, anxiety and afraid of his subordinates. The second factor also consists of five variables: doing tasks outside the main task, poor lighting in the workplace, lack of privacy in the workplace, special material requirements for work are not available, and funding for project work has stalled.