RESEARCH
MANAGING THE MENTAL HEALTH OF PROJECT MANAGERS
POOR MENTAL HEALTH IS A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM, WITH TREMENDOUS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS.
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced new psychosocial risks in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) project organisations, causing poor mental health for some project managers. Despite the urgent need for mental health management practices during the COVID-19 era, it is surprising that there is an absence of mental health studies in AEC project organisations to tackle psychosocial risks triggering poor mental health. 40
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Insufficient empirical studies on mental health management has hampered the ability of AEC firms to adopt project management practices that reduce newly introduced COVID-19 psychosocial risks. Therefore, it is up to practitioners, government institutions and researchers to challenge existing studies to uncover ways to improve mental health management for project managers.
