Cognitive Style, Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction among Marketing and Banking Professionals

Abstract

In today’s competitive era, it is very important for a professional to continuously work towards achieving organisational goals and targets allocated to him in order to prove himself as a productive and indispensable asset for the organisation. In doing so these professionals go through tremendous workload and pressure to achieve the given targets and meet the deadlines. Purpose of this study was to assess the Cognitive Styles, Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction among the Young Professionals and to find out whether any relationship exists among Cognitive Style, Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction among the Young Professionals. In this study 30 Young Professionals from two groups i.e. 15 each from Banking (Government sector Banks) and Marketing (Private Marketing Firms) in the age range 25-35 years were selected as participants using purposive and snowball sampling methods. For the study Cognitive Style Inventory by Dr. Praveen Kumar Jha (2001), Occupational Stress Index developed by Dr. A.K. Srivastava and Dr. A.K. Singh (1984) and Job Satisfaction Questionnaire by Dr. Hardeo Ojha (2011) were used. For the statistical analysis, SPSS version 20 was used. Kruskal Wallis Test was used to assess the significant difference whereas Spearman’s Rank Order Method was used to assess the relationship between Cognitive style, Occupational stress and Job Satisfaction among Marketing Professionals and Banking Professionals. The results of study indicate that significant difference was found among the Marketing Professionals and Banking Professionals in relation to Occupational Stress (p=0.02) and Job Satisfaction (p=0.05) at 0.05 level. Also there was significant negative correlation between Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction at 0.01 level.