Stress Levels of Employees Working in Pump Industries with Reference to Coimbatore District

 

Dr. V. Abirami¹, Ms. S. M. Divya Bharathi²,

¹Professor, Department of Management Studies, Dr. N. G. P. Arts and Science College, Coimbatore.

²M. Phil Research Scholar, Department of Management Studies, Dr. N. G. P. Arts and Science College, Coimbatore.

 

ABSTRACT:

There is a growing awareness of how stress adversely affects organization efficiency. The implementation of stress management programs to counteract this problem has been slow. This study examined such programs in companies who claimed that they were active and successful in stress management for their employees. The successful feature of these organizations is presented. Stress has become significant due to dynamic social factor and changing needs of life styles. Stress is man’s adaptive reaction to an outward situation which would lead to physical, mental and behavioral changes. Even though stress kills brain cells, not all stresses are destructive in nature. Appropriate amount of stress can actually trigger passion for work, tap latent abilities and even ignite in spirations. The study throws light on the wide spread silent problem, increase divorce rates, and other harassments.

 

 

 

1. INTRODUCTION:

1.1 Stress Management:

Stress management is the amelioration of stress and especially chronic stress often for the purpose of improving everyday functioning. Stress produces numerous symptoms which vary according to persons, situations, and severity. These can include physical health decline as well as depression. Stress is a dynamic condition, which an individual is confronted with an opportunity, constraint or demand related to what he or she desires and for which the outcome is perceived to be both uncertain and important. Stress is associated with constraints and demands.

 

The former prevent you from doing what you desire, the latter refers to the loss of something desired. Stress is highest for those individuals who perceive that they are uncertain as to whether they will win or lose and lowest for those individuals who think that winning or losing is certainty.

 

2. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

1)     To identify emotional, physical and mental effect of stress.

2)     To apply various stress reduction techniques in various levels.

3)     To study the reasons for stress towards employees.

4)     To study the impact of stress on the employees and their performances.

 

3. SCOPE OF THE STUDY:

The study has been conducted to collect information relating to the employees views and satisfaction levels. The study analyses the current status of the employee attitudes and bring forth suggestions to improve the implementation of the various mechanisms which in turn will lead to increase the level of commitment towards employees. There is scope to widen the study to other branches and businesses of pump industries.

 

4. REVIEW OF LITERATURE:

Vijay V. Raghavan, (2010), The effect of flexible work schedule, employee support and training, and telecommuting as potential coping resources to relieve stress. Perceived workload, role ambiguity, work facilitation, and decision latitude are potential stressors of IT professionals. Removing role ambiguity and improving work facilitation reduce work-related stress and allowing employees to have flexible work schedules ease their perceptions of workload.

 

Deshmukh N.H. (2009), Stress and life satisfaction among working and non-working women from similar levels of socio economic status of the society, resulted that there was no significant difference in physical and family stress among working and non-working women. Role stress was significantly higher among working than non-working women. Life satisfaction was better in working women than non-working women.

 

Sahana Charan, (2007), High work pressure, long hours in front of the computer and a fast-paced Journal of Information Technology and Economic Development 2(2), 30-48, October 2011 35 lifestyle, if these factors team up to weaken your physical health, here is one more strong reason why they are simply unhealthy: mental health professionals are now convinced that an increasing number of persons working in the IT and IT-enabled services sector fall prey to depression, because of the high stress they undergo.

 

5. RESEARCH DESIGN:

The research design constitutes the blue print for the collection, measurement and analysis of data. The researcher had adopted descriptive research design for the study.

 

6. TOOLS USED FOR ANALYSIS OF DATA:

The collected data have been tabulated and analyzed in a systematic manner. The tools used for analysis is correlation.

 

6.1 Table shown correlation of Emotional stress

Emotional stress		Feel emotionally drained from work.	Job is burden.	Affecting stress by external persons.
Feel emotionally drained from work.	Pearson Correlation Sig. (2-tailed) N	1   103	.182 .065 103	.323** .001 103
Job is burden.	Pearson Correlation Sig. (2-tailed) N	.182 .065 103	1   103	.307** .022 103
Affecting stress by external persons.	Pearson Correlation Sig. (2-tailed) N	.323** .001 103	.307** .002 103	1   103

 

 

INFERENCE:

The bivariate correlation is under taken between the respondents. It was hypothesis that a relationship exists between the emotionally drained and job burden. That the relationship of emotionally drained is result shown that there exists a positive relationship of emotionally drained.

 

6.2 Table shown correlation of Physical stress

 

Descriptive Statistics
Physical stress	Mean	Std. Deviation	N
Frequent disorder while doing job.	3.18	1.186	103
Feeling more restless while work.	2.71	1.035	103

 

 

 

INFERENCE:

The bivariate correlation is under taken between the respondents. It was hypothesis that a relationship exists between the frequent disorder and more restless. That the relationship of frequent disorder is result shown that there exists a positive relationship of frequent disorder.

 

6.3 Table shown correlation of Environment stress

Environment stress	Working environment in the organization is it stress free.	Feeling that working environment is highly stressed.
Working environment in the organization is it stress free.	1   103	-.051 .612 103
Feeling that working environment is highly stressed.	-.051 .612 103	1   103

 

Descriptive Statistics
Environment stress	Mean	Std. Deviation	N
Working environment in the organization is it stress free.	1.97	1.061	103
Feeling that working environment is highly stressed.	2.83	1.192	103

 

INFERENCE:

The bivariate correlation is under taken between the respondents. It was hypothesis that a relationship exists between the working environment and environment is highly stressed. That the relationship of working environment is result shown that there exists a positive relationship of working environment.

6.4 Table shown Pressure on the job

Pressure on the job		Unable to complete tasks during the day.	Grab too much red tape.	Forced to complete the task.
Unable to complete tasks during the day	Pearson Correlation Sig. (2-tailed) N	1   103	.007 .946 103	.078 .435 103
Grab too much red tape.	Pearson Correlation Sig. (2-tailed) N	.007 .946 103	1   103	.110 .267 103
Forced to complete the task.	Pearson Correlation Sig. (2-tailed) N	.078 .435 103	.110 .267 103	1   103

 

 

 

INFERENCE:

The bivariate correlation is under taken between the respondents. It was hypothesis that a relationship exists between the complete tasks and too much red tape. That the relationship of complete tasks result shown that there exists a positive relationship of complete tasks.

 

7. FINDINGS:

1)     There is a positive relationship between the employees emotionally drained from work and job burden.

2)     There is a positive relationship between the employees frequent disorder while doing job and feeling more restless while work.

3)     There is a positive relationship between the employees working environment in the organization is it stress free and feeling that working environment is highly stressed.

4)     There is a positive relationship between the employees relationship exists between the complete tasks and too much red tape, complete tasks.

 

8. SUGGESTIONS:

Most of the respondents are expecting that the training and development and counseling are the remedial measures for reducing stress. Meeting deadlines is the work related pressure and it has the difference of opinion in respondent’s perception. Since, the deadline has been fixed, at times the employees are not comfortable enough to achieve those prefixed deadlines, which cause them stress. This stressor of nature of work can be avoided by changing the deadlines slightly according to the employees or involve them in setting deadlines. This will provide their employees to be free from stress and in turn, they can contribute more towards their organizations growth and development. This will enhance their productivity and satisfaction towards their job.

 

9. CONCLUSION:

Stress is a naturally occurring phenomenon which can act as a motivator under the right circumstances. There are many sources of stress in our lives but one well researched source is the workplace. Our bodies are well adopted and have evolved to deal with short term physical threats but we are not well equipped to deal with the long term psychological stressors of modern life. Undoubtedly stress is a modern day health risk. Much of the stress at work is caused not only by work overload and time pressure but also by Deadlines and Interpersonal relationships.

 

10. REFERENCES:

1.     Palm M. Lehrel, Robert L. Wool folk, Wepley E. sime, (2007), Stress Management, 3rdEdition, Guilford press.

2.     Gregory Moorhead, Ricky W. Griffin, (2005), Organizational Behavior, 7thEdition Biztantra pub.

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5.     Ashley Weinberg, Valerie J Sutherland, (2010), Organizational Stress Management, Palgrave.

6.     Vijay V. Raghavan, Toru Sakaguchi, Robert C. Mahaney, (2010), An Empirical Investigation of Stress Factors in Information Technology Professionals, IGI Global, and U.S.A.

7.     R. Paneerselvam, (2005), Research Methodology, Prentice – hall pub.

8.     Rangit kumar, (2004), Research methodology, 2^nd edition, Sage pub.

 

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