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Impact of Team Member Resources and Team Structure on Emergency Response Performance: An Empirical Evidence from Pakistan
(Library Information Services COMSATS University Islamabad Lahore Campus, 2013-01-30) Faheem Ather Haqqani; FA10-MSMS-006; Prof. Dr. Hafiz Zahid Mahmood; LHR TP 4387
The role of emergency response is vital for any nation due to their sensitive nature of work. These teams are supposed to help the needy persons who trapped in any accidental or medical emergency. This study has been devised to investigate various factors affecting performance of emergency response rescue teams. Amongs the pyramids of a few 8 elements were selected including team structure (leadership, role clarity, norms, age) and team member resources (personality, training), critical incident stressors, and chronic stressors. The Impact of critical incident stressors and chronic stressors were also investigated as moderator between the link of independent variables and dependent variable. For empirical evidence data was collected from Rescue 1122, an emergency response organization working in 36 districts of Punjab province, in Pakistan. Three cities Fasialabad, Sargodha and Khushab were selected by employing Stratified Sampling Techniques based on common characteristics. Self administered questionnaire was used to collect the data from rescue workers. Various data analytical tools including descriptive and inferential statistics were employed. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) carries out as data analytical tool for data reduction. Afterword, regression analysis using Preacher & Hayes regression method of moderation was employed. Moreover, one way ANOVA test and Post hoc test were also conducted to judge the city wise comparisons of performances. The results of these analyses proved that there was significant and positive relationship between emergency response performance and leadership, role clarity, norms, age, personality. Critical incident stressors and chronic stressors had significant but negative relationship, as independent variable, with emergency performance. But no relationship was found when these 2 factors were investigated as moderators. Moreover, no relationship was found between training and emergency performance. Therefore, it is concluded that Performance of the rescue workers can improve with the improvements in factors of team member resources & team structures, and by reducing the critical and chronic stresses.
Role of Authentic Leadership and Employee Engagement in the Relationship of Psychological Capital and Engineers’ Performance: A Case of Construction Projects in Pakistan
(Library Information Services COMSATS University Islamabad Lahore Campus, 2020-01-30) Tabassum Rasool; SP18-RPM-001; LHR TP 6060; Dr. Saleha Javed
Positive psychology is very important for the employees. This research pertains to the construction industry employees’ psychological functioning and perspicacity. As the nature of the construction projects is very stressful and demanding, the main purpose of our research is to investigate the impact of PsyCap and employee engagement on performance of engineers working at construction projects in Pakistan, mediation effect of “employee engagement” and moderation effect of “authentic leadership”. The comprehensive framework of the study provides the better understanding and has addressed the vast spectrum of literature regarding the impact of “PsyCap” on engineers’ performance with mediation effect of “employee engagement” and moderation effect of “authentic leadership”. A survey-based approach using a questionnaire was adopted to achieve the objectives of the study. 400 questionnaires were distributed after visiting the construction sites. Due to COVID-19 pandemic a lockdown was imposed and all offices/projects were closed. So, we used the Google form and sent emails to engineers working on construction projects in Pakistan. Our respondents were engineers working on different construction projects in Pakistan. Analysis has been done by correlation and regression analysis techniques. Mediation is checked by process of Andrew F. Hayes. Findings show that there is a significant relation between PsyCap, employee engagement and employee performance. Employee engagement partially mediates the relationship between PsyCap and performance of engineers working at different construction projects in Pakistan. But, moderating role of authentic leadership between PsyCap and performance of engineers found to be insignificant. Data was collected from engineers working in construction projects in Pakistan. Software SPSS version 25 was used to test the framework. The findings may help the engineering sector to implement these positive organizational behaviors to improve the performance of engineers. Positive psychology is very important to enhance the performance and engagement of engineers and it has highest return on investment. It will help engineers to work without stress and link them psychologically to their organizations and projects. There are some limitations of this study as it is done in only one sector, due to less time we used cross-sectional approach. In future other researchers may explore this model in other sectors. In future a qualitative study maybe conducted.

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