Investigating factors affecting construction workers performance

Abstract

Employee performance is fundamental to successful execution of construction project where it depends by internal and external factors. To increase employee performance, the organization should analyze the external factors that may reflect on employee performances. This research examines the relationship of work-life balance, mental workload and job satisfaction with the performance of construction employee. Data collection using questionnaires that have been tested for validity and relibiality and sampling technique using purposive sampling. The data processing was done by using NASA-TLX method to find out the mental workload and SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) method. The results showed that the mental work load negatively affect job satisfaction and employee performance, work-life balance positivetly affect job satisfaction and employee performance, and job satisfaction positively affect employee performance. The findings of the paper can be a guidance for construction companies to formulate strategy for increasing employee performances by adding the number of employees for the workload to be decreased, compressing work week for a balanced work-life and to promote the employees more frequently to increase job satisfaction.