Organizational Climate and Organizational Role Stress: A Correlational Study in Newspaper Industry

Abstract

The study deals with the relationships of organizational climate with organizational role stress in newspaper industry and the sample under study were the staff reporters/correspondents of newspapers. This study is unique in the sense that hardly any research inquiry has been so far done on to the newspaper reporters/correspondents from a psychological perspective. The findings of the study indicate that perception of internal environment of organization is negatively related with the felt role stress on the part of all the groups of newspaper reporters under study. The findings of the study were discussed in the light of previous research in the field. This study is of importance to the newspaper industry as it would help the management of the newspaper organization to design organizational policies, practices, and procedures in such a fashion so that the newspaper reporters could work to their level best without experiencing too much of role stress.