A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Construction Organizations’ Coping in the Covid-19 Crisis

Abstract

The pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) around the world affected not only human health and the world’s economy, but also business operations that included the construction industry. Therefore, the working approaches of the organization during the crisis needed to be reconsidered. The resilience of the organization is a necessary ability to help the organization get through the difficulties and survive during the uncertain period. This research aimed to develop factors affecting the coping of the construction organization in pandemic situation. Data were collected through 327 questionnaires from people
working in construction sectors. The result indicated that there were five factors affecting organizational resilience, namely ranging from most to least important Organizational Resilience, Leadership, Staff Performance, Change Ready, and Organizational Performance. The test showed that the model fitted to the empirical data (χ2/df = 2.920, CFI = 0.904, GFI = 0.833, AGFI = 0.801 and RMSEA=0.077)