Stress Management Techniques in Banking Sectors in Nigeria

Abstract

Stress is often termed as twentieth century syndrome born out of man’s race toward modern progress and its ensuring complexities. At one point or the other, everybody suffers from stress. Stress has become a part of day-to-day living of every individual. On the one side, stress provides the means to express talents and energies, and pursue happiness; while on the other it can also cause exhaustion and illness, either physical or psychological. This paper has been designed to study the stress management techniques of bank employees in Nigeria banking industry. An attempt has been made to find out the relationship between the female and male coping mechanisms during stress. The researcher makes use of gender and sections in determining his decisions. The descriptive statistical, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and ANOVA statistical technique in testing the relationship among variables. The result shows thatmale and female bank employees will not significantly cope with stress management techniques in Nigerian banking industry. It also shows that male and female bankers were found not to differ significantly on their stress management technique and that stress management is not gender sensitive or gendercentric.The researcher recommends that training, total computerization and others to enable bank employees’ cope-up with the stress in the work places. Also the stress management techniques work best when they are used regularly, not just when the pressure is on knowing how to de-stress and doing it when things are relatively calm can help one get through challenging circumstance that may rise.