Volume : II, Issue : VII, July - 2013

Organizational Stress and its Management: An Empiric Observation

Umesh Chandra Mahapatra

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The primary objective of the present study is to examine organizational stress or job-related stress of employees and its management among them working in different administrative and financial organizations at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.. The study was undertaken in the year 2012. The other purpose is to investigate the job related stress among senior and junior employees. The study adopted a 2 x 2 factorial design where senior and junior employees were crossed with two types of organization (administrative and financial). 100 adult employees participated in this study. There were 25 participants in each of four cells. The participants were individually administered a standardized role-stress questionnaire. The questionnaire included domains such as role ambiguity, role conflict, role overload, work-family conflict, social support, job stress, job satisfaction, self-concept, organizational commitment, supervisor’s evaluation and intention to leave. The measure also sought personal information such as participants’ age, sex, educational and marital status. The statistical analyses were geared to examine group differences on domains of role stress. The results indicated that employees of administrative organizations experienced greater work-family conflict than employees of financial organizations. Moreover, these employees showed less organizational commitment and greater intention to leave the organization than employees of financial organizations. It was also found that junior employees had greater intention to leave the organizations than senior employees. It was noted that the overall pattern did not suggest significant difference of overall role stress across organizational types and across age levels (senior and junior). The findings were explained in the light of current conceptualization. The implications of this study were also outlined.

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Umesh Chandra Mahapatra Organizational Stress and its Management: An Empiric Observation International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 2, Issue : 7 July 2013

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