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      The Sources of Stress amongst Construction Consultants In Workplace Environment

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      Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies
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          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 inspire designs that sometimes lead to stress and affect their work performance. Moreover, stress can cause poor planning, lack of communications and interpersonal conflicts. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to identify the causes and effects of workplace stress amongst 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 of about 38% of the samples. The outcome of this research show that they were generally enjoyed their work but sometimes feel stress due to poor planning and job demand, working surrounding and relationship among staff. This indicates that stress lead to bad designs and sometimes gives bad effects to the performance of the designers. 

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          Journal
          Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies
          ajE-Bs
          e-IPH Ltd.
          2514-751X
          June 29 2018
          July 18 2018
          : 3
          : 9
          : 201
          Article
          10.21834/aje-bs.v3i9.306
          208d3936-b242-481a-9a19-7c7aa23995ce
          © 2018

          This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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          Psychology,Urban design & Planning,Urban studies,General behavioral science,Cultural studies

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