Volume : III, Issue : III, March - 2013

Effect of Stress and Work culture on Job Satisfaction with Special reference to employees in Public Sectors

Dr. A. Vimala

Abstract :

Work place stress is relatively a latest trend of contemporary life. The characteristics of work have undergone radical changes over the last century and it is still shifting at a twister pace. Stress occurs in more or less all lines of work, starting from a pilot to sales manager. It is a never ending syndrome originating from circumstances in the place of work that pessimistically affects a person’s performance and or well–being of his body and intellect on the whole. Some time it leads to job dissatisfaction in their job as well as in their family. Job satisfaction is a crucial phenomenon in present organization because of its diverse effect upon organizational effectiveness and individual well being. Job satisfaction has been defined as pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or affective reaction to one’s job. According to Luthans (1988), job satisfaction is an emotional response to a job situation which can only be inferred, often determined by how well outcomes meet or exceed expectations. It represents several related attitudes which are most important characteristics of a job about which people have an effective response. The present study was conducted with 200 employees working in various public sectors in Coimbatore district. The main objective of the research was to examine the impact of family/life demand stress and work culture on job satisfaction. The tools applied for the analysis are Mean, Standard deviation and Correlation. The result of correlation indicates that positive job demand and positive stress are positively related with the job satisfaction at employee’s level. Where as personal positive level significantly influence the overall satisfaction of the employees. The t–test shows that there is a significant difference in the satisfaction with job, satisfaction with employee level and overall performance satisfaction between high and low positive stresses. The result found that, the difference in significance arises due to work nature, responsibility towards job; demand both in job as well as family, obligation, not recognition, transfer and others.

Keywords :

Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijar  

Cite This Article:

Dr. A.Vimala Effect of Stress and Work culture on Job Satisfaction with Special reference to employees in Public Sectors Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.III March 2013

Number of Downloads : 1028

References :