Motivation, performance, and job satisfaction of construction management professionals - An expectancy theory research approach

Human potential is boundless, but humans require motivation to excel. Motivation is intangible: it is a hypothetical construct that is used to help explain human behavior. Various researchers have conducted comprehensive studies investigating construction labourers' motivation patterns, which have focused on the importance attached to various job related factors and their satisfaction with each factor. The motivational issues of the construction management professionals who play a major rule have been ignored in previous research. Using the Expectancy theory concept, this paper presents an investigation of how motivation, work experience, and education affect Construction Management Professionals' (CMPs) performance. Using a statistical analysis based on an industry survey, this paper also-illustrates the relationship between CMPs' job satisfaction and their degree of satisfaction with their jobs' outcomes. This study's main finding is that motivation, work experience, and education cumulatively improve CMPs' performance, effective performance, and efficient performance. Additionally, the study found that, to increase CMPs' job satisfaction, construction companies should increase their CMPs' degree of satisfaction with job outcomes. These findings may assist construction companies to establish an efficient motivation environment to improve efficiency of project performance.