Organizational leadership and employee well-being in the construction industry: a bibliometric and scientometric review
Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology
ISSN: 1726-0531
Article publication date: 13 September 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The construction industry (CI) has been identified as one of the most challenging sectors for stakeholders to achieve organizational success. Although previous studies had examined both organizational leadership (OL) and employee well-being (EWB) in the CI, a bibliometric and systematic analysis of published articles is hitherto lacking. Therefore, this paper aims to conduct a bibliometric and scientometric review of published articles related to OL and EWB in the CI between 2008 and 2022.
Design/methodology/approach
A three-step method consisting of a bibliometric analysis, a scientometric analysis and an in-depth discussion were used. A total of 1,114 articles met the inclusion criteria. All articles were retrieved from the Scopus database.
Findings
The results present an in-depth discussion of the research publication trends, keywords co-occurrence analysis, document analysis and countries/regions analysis. This review paper identified three main research gaps in OL and EWB in the CI, namely, project management, technology innovation and people orientation. It also proposes “OL-EWB in the CI”' mechanisms and a theoretical framework to guide future research directions.
Originality/value
This review paper theoretically fills the gap in the lack of research summarizing OL and EWB in the CI and provides research gaps and trends for achieving a win-win situation for both companies and employees.
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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, UK, for supporting this research. The authors are also grateful to the editor and reviewers for their comments in improving the quality of this paper. This paper forms part of the first author’s research project where similar research backgrounds but different scopes and/or analyses may have been published.
All data generated or analysed that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Citation
Shi, J. and Antwi-Afari, M.F. (2023), "Organizational leadership and employee well-being in the construction industry: a bibliometric and scientometric review", Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEDT-05-2023-0174
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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