Job stress and job satisfaction among managerial and non-managerial employees of a public sector undertaking

Pages: 330-334
Sana Khalique (Maulana Azad National Fellow University Department of Management, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand)

The modern world, which is a world of achievements, is also a world of stress. One finds stress all walks of life. Different people have different views about it as stress can be experienced from a variety of sources. Occupational stress & maladjustment are labeled as one of the most serious occupational problems of the modern. The objective of the present study was to study the level of job satisfaction and Occupation stress among managerial and non-managerial employees of a public sector undertaking. 200 employees were included for this study. The sample was based on two gender (male and female), two employee categories (managerial and non-managerial) and two age (high and low age). 2x2x2 factorial design was used for this present study. Job satisfaction by Meera Dixit (1993) scale and occupational stress scale by Srivastava and Singh (1981) were administered for the data collection. The obtained data were analyzed by computing ANOVA and Pearson product moment correlation method. The finding revealed that there is a negative but weak correlation between job satisfaction and occupational stress. Further the results are discussed.