Shi, J and Antwi-Afari, M F (2025) Organizational leadership and employee well-being in the construction industry: A bibliometric and scientometric review. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 23(3), pp. 705-724. ISSN 1726-0531
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | bibliometric; construction industry; employee well-being; organizational leadership; scientometric |
| Index terms: | document analysis, database, technology innovation, construction industry, project management, bibliometric analysis, methodology, well-being, publication |
| Subjects: | research dissemination and communication, research methods, automation and robotics, data science, mental health and wellbeing, data management, research evaluation and metrics, industry analysis, project management theory and practice |
| Topics: | Project Management, Health and Safety, Digital Applications, Information Management, Research Practice |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
N.B. Descriptive scope is a count of how many of the five facets of empirical research are indicated by the words used in title, abstract and keywords. It is not intended as a judgement on the research; merely a count of the kind of word we would expect to indicate Phenomenon, Concepts, Theoretical framing, Empirical techniques, Analytical techniques. If all five are present, then a code of “5 PCTEA” will indicate this. If you feel the coding for this record is questionable, we welcome discussion around the terms we matched or the way we categorized them. The facet you would expect may not be coded, or a facet may be coded inappropriately. This can also bear on a larger question, of which facets should be treated as defining in construction management research. Please get in touch, and we will look at it. More details here