Analyzing Factors Influencing the Job Satisfaction of Building Construction Workers in Bangladesh: A Study on Private Construction Firms

Abstract

Workers of all organizations need to be satisfied to facilitate their input towards the attainment of organizational goals. Construction workers like all other workers need this sort of satisfaction enables them give off their best. The purpose of this study was to analyze and find out the factors influencing the job satisfaction of construction workers who were working in private construction firms in Bangladesh. Data were collected from building construction workers of different private construction firms in Dhaka city. A total of 144 construction workers were interviewed randomly with a structured questionnaire. To meet the objective of this study individual bi-variate analysis and factor analysis of job satisfaction of building construction workers are considered here. The Cronbach’s “Alpha” reliability estimate for the 30 items was 0.897. This study worked with six main factors with twenty one dimensions related to job satisfaction. Out of which four factors such as motivation, working environment, human relations, and supervision by supervisor are moderately correlated to job satisfaction scoring 0.679, 0.555, 0.650 & 0.615 respectively. The findings indicate that 95% of the respondents are male and confirms the fact that the construction workers of this sector are male dominated. The age distribution of respondents that majority of respondents 71 (49.3%) out of a total 144 are aged between 21-30 years. It is evident from the study that regression model is able to express 63% of total variation. Human relations, motivation, working environment, and supervision by supervisor are the most influencing factors in framing job satisfaction of building construction workers since coefficient beta scores 0.323, 0.284, 0.276, & 0.235 respectively. So the management should focus on the above mentioned issues for making the workers happier with their job.

Keywords: Influential factors, Building construction workers, Job satisfaction, Bangladesh.