Towards Developing Empathetic Young Engineers for Rural Road Project Management

EasyChair Preprint 6230, version 2

Abstract

The current study is an integrative and analytical recent literature review on the concept and meaning of empathy for the rural road project management.  Purpose of this study is to analyse the explicit meaning of empathy when element of engineering is the centre of the study and to analyse which empathetic views influence rural project engineers the most.  The literature was collected from five databases through an advanced computer search.  The Guidelines for The Design of Low-Volume Rural Roads (LVRR) is used for the analysis of the empathetic view of the study. Two research questions were addressed: first, what does empathy mean when the element of engineering is the centre of the study? and; secondly which empathetic views influence engineering the most? The data were analysed by means of descriptive statistics and qualitative content analysis. Factors contributing to project failure can be categorised into three major factors namely physical and financial constraint, empathy and other minor issues. Empathy issues are the combination of empathy keywords and empathetic views could be developed and inculcated in the management of rural road during desk study, planning, design and construction stage of the project.  In order to reduce project failures, intervention through empathy training is a viable option to be given to engineers for the enhancement of emotional intelligent and project management skill.

Keyphrases: Competency, Empathetic, Low Volume Rural Road, Young Engineer, online module

@booklet{EasyChair:6230,
  author    = {Norwati Mohamad Ali and Yusouf Latif and Alexa Ray Fernando and Abdelrahim Mohamed Minalla and Chin Chia Yuan and Syed Ahmad Helmi Syed Hassan and Khairiyah Mohd Yusof},
  title     = {Towards Developing Empathetic Young Engineers for Rural Road Project Management},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 6230},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}