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Introduction
Stress is the body's reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response (Wikipedia). The term stress was used and introduced to social sciences by Hans (Selye in the year 1950). occupational stress is likely to be sustainable higher amongst those occupations whose task is person focused. Hingley and Cooper (1986) (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984; Edworthy, 2000) defined job stress as the discrepancy between environmental and situational factors in their work and employees capability and resources to handle them. When stress increases beyond the point, feelings of frustration, anxiety and tiredness start to consume energy and stress becomes dysfunctional and detrimental to performance (Muse et al., 2003; Sullivan and Bhagat, 1992).
Introduction (Contd.)
Stress can be constructive or destructive. Constructive stress has a positive impact on the employee. It gives a feeling of satisfaction and self respect. Additionally it also increases their interest in their work and opportunities for rehearsing their creative ability. On the other hand destructive stress gives negative results as far the performance of the individual and organization is concerned. This type of stress leads to decrease in performance efficiency, work related carelessness.
Methodology
We cannot directly observe the job stress level. We usually rely on the self report of respondent to measure the job stress level. For this purpose we can use interview or rating scale questionnaire. We have preferred to use rating scale questionnaire because when using interviews some workers might not give an accurate representation of their levels of job stress fearing relationship from management.
Research Design
This is a descriptive study. This study was carried out at University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. Basically the focus of this study is only faculty (Lecturers, Assistant Processors, Associate Professors, and Professors) particularly from School of Business and Economics.
Findings
Results show that these four factors concludes the 53.066% of the data. Job Description related problems play very strong role to increase the job stress level (29.279%). Health and Self-Confidence make another 9.668% contribution towards job stress level. Similarly, Work Place Environment contributes another 6.912% Organizations Policies makes its a cumulative of 59.94% with a contribution of 6.873%.
Findings (Contd.)
So, if we re-design our model it will look like: