چكيده به لاتين
In order to be assured of safe and sound performance in construction projects, it is crucial to pay enough attention to people who are dynamizing the projects and carrying out a notable portion of the work and also to get familiarized with their traits.
Knowing that workers’ characteristics would affect their performance, in the present study, within two construction projects, workers’ emotional intelligence (EI), motivation, and job burnout status were assessed by a structured interview with a series of questions that were authored by the researcher based on Goleman’s questionnaire. The size of the statistical population and statistical sample were, respectively, 155 and 134 people. Interview questions consisted of 29 questions in general; five of them were regarding each component of EI, four questions for motivation, and four questions to appraise the job burnout of workers. Also, the answer scale was a five-point Likert scale. Moreover, workers’ safety behaviors were assessed by a checklist derivated from national codes and regulations plus results of other research, and after that, the researcher’s observations took place, and data were acquired.
After collecting the required data and analyzing them, it was concluded that EI, motivation, and job burnout in workers were correlated with their safety behaviors, and the correlations between EI and safety behaviors, in addition to motivation and safety behavior, were acknowledged as strong ones. Nevertheless, according to the presented model, only EI and motivation of workers were able to predict safety behaviors, and the effect of job burnout on safety behavior was not statistically significant. However, in this research, workers of two construction sites almost had the same condition regarding their EI, motivation, and job burnout status, but there was a significant gap in their safety behaviors. This could be attributed to other factors that were not in the framework of this study.
