A study on the job stress management among the employees of public and private sector bank

Abstract

The present study enhances the job Stress level of the Public private and Sector Bank employees in thirunelveli. Empirical data has been collected for the study. This study also presents recommendations to administrators and policy makers on several Organisational Development interventions which can alleviate stress experienced by Public and private Sector Bank employees. This research shows that a large number of bankers are facing high stress because of their job and the reasons behind this stress include long working hours, improper reward system, lack of job autonomy, organizational culture, role conflict etc. and the main reason is lack of management support to employees. In methodology entails a survey of 282 public and 220 private sector employees in thirunelveli district whose responses are measured according to an occupational role stress, health stress factors, and psychological stress factors. The sample was collected through convenience sampling. On applying the t-test and ANOVA test to the data, Kruskal Wallis test to find that both public and private sector employees face moderate levels of stress. While there is no significant difference overall between public and private sector employees in terms of total stress levels, certain individual stressors such as work experience, age group, marital status, annual income and educational qualifications. The major limitation of this study is that it was conducted in thirunelveli district alone, while the work culture of organizations other than in thirunelveli district may be change.