The Sources of Stress amongst Construction Consultants In Workplace Environment

Abstract

Designers in Malaysia are beginning to feel the existence and growing of stress levels at the workplace due to high pressure and competitive working environment. Designer profession is to create inspiring designs that sometimes lead to stress and affect their work performance. Moreover, stress can cause poor planning, lack of communication and interpersonal conflicts. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to identify the causes and effects of workplace stress among designers. Questionnaire survey was distributed among 500 designers. The respondents are from construction consultant companies in Klang Valley.  The response rate of this paper was performed in about 38% of the samples. The outcome of this research shows that they generally enjoyed their work but sometimes feel stressed due to poor planning and job demand, working surrounding and relationships among staff. This indicates that stress leads to bad designs and sometimes gives bad effects on the performance of the designers.