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- Title
Identifying Stressors at Work -- A Case of Employees in the Electronics Industry.
- Authors
Kang, Lakhwinder Singg; Singh, Raghbir
- Abstract
Stress is becoming increasingly globalised and affects all countries, professions and categories of workers. Several researchers have developed different frameworks for understanding organisational/job/work stress. The present paper is an endeavour to identify organisational stressors and measure stress through stress symptoms by surveying the employees of the electronics industry in Punjab. A sample of 214 respondents was taken from the selected organisations. The data have been collected by personally interviewing the selected respondents with the help of a pretested questionnaire. Factor analysis has been employed in this study to identify the structure of organisational factors which have the potential to produce stress among employees. Poor organisational structure and climate, poor interpersonal relations, work overload, work inhibitors, lack of resources, unmet financial needs and job insecurity, inconsiderate superior; rigid rules, role ambiguity and monotonous job have been identified as the major organisational factors. Stress symptoms have been used to measure stress. Out of ten organisational factor's identified, only six organisational factors viz., poor organisational structure and climate, poor interpersonal relations, inconsiderate superior, role ambiguity and work inhibitors have been found to be associated with stress.
- Subjects
JOB stress; INDUSTRIAL psychology; PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout; WORK environment; PHYSIOLOGICAL stress; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; PERSONNEL management; ELECTRONIC industries
- Publication
Decision (0304-0941), 2004, Vol 31, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0304-0941
- Publication type
Article