Department of Psychology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Comput Intell Neurosci. 2022 May 14;2022:9306167. doi: 10.1155/2022/9306167. eCollection 2022.
The construction industry is characterized by a high level of mobility and a diverse range of practitioners from different social status, which can affect the industry's group management processes. The exploration of the mechanisms involved is an important task for theoretical research and a challenge for management practices. This study examines three relevant aspects of work-group behavior in the construction industry from a social exchange perspective: the individual's evaluation of the level of the emotional investment of members in the work team and their assessment of personal rewards and costs. The study of 71 construction industry workers through the development of a cost-benefit inventory questionnaire of individual-team exchange relationships revealed that their level of emotional investment in the work group can be predicted by assessing their awareness of personal rewards and costs. A further clustering algorithm revealed that an individual's social status had a significant impact on their level of affective investment, but there was no significant correlation between an individual's wage and their level of emotional investment in the work team. The findings deepen our understanding of group behaviors in the construction field by explaining the interactions between individuals and organizations in work groups while emphasizing the indispensable role of emotional factors in group development.
建筑行业的特点是高度流动和从业者来自不同社会地位的多样性，这可能会影响行业的团队管理流程。探索其中的机制是理论研究的重要任务，也是管理实践的挑战。本研究从社会交换的角度探讨了建筑行业工作群体行为的三个相关方面：个体对团队成员情感投入水平的评价以及对个人回报和成本的评估。通过开发个体-团队交换关系的成本效益清单问卷，对 71 名建筑行业工人进行了研究，结果表明，通过评估个人的回报和成本，可以预测他们对工作群体的情感投入水平。进一步的聚类算法显示，个体的社会地位对其情感投入水平有显著影响，但个体的工资与他们对工作团队的情感投入水平之间没有显著相关性。这些发现通过解释工作群体中个体与组织之间的相互作用，深化了我们对建筑领域群体行为的理解，同时强调了情感因素在群体发展中的不可或缺作用。
