Abstract: Occupational stress has been proven a major contributor of employee’s ill health at workplace, thus the problem has been an area of concern in context of healthy institutional and family living. The research was conducted on 120 working women of Hisar city of Haryana, 60 respondents from both public and private sector were selected randomly working in banks, hospitals and educational institutions (15 respondents from class I, II, III and IV cadre). Results of the study concluded that respondent’s work culture was supportive, majorly work problems were discussed with seniors, organizational policies were almost suitable, working at the organization provided satisfaction due to which even after reported to have increased workload respondents no long leave was taken. Overall level of job stress was medium, due to moderate stress caused by job performance, workplace environment, job expectation and job role, and high level stress due to job satisfaction and job security.
Keywords: Occupational stress, Job security, Job performance, Job expectation, Job role.
Title: Extent and Causes of Job Stress among Working Women of Hisar City
Author: Deepti Kothari, Rita Goel
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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