The Relationship between Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction: The Case of Pakistani Universities

Abdul Qayyum Chaudhry

doi:10.5539/ies.v5n3p212

Abstract

This paper aims to find out the relationship between occupational stress and job satisfaction based on age, gender, nature of job, cadre, work experience of university teachers, and sector of university. The Pearson correlation indicates: no significant relationship found between job satisfaction and overall occupational stress; inverse relationship is found between the occupational stress and overall job satisfaction in faculty members of private universities; is no relationship between the occupational stress and overall job satisfaction in faculty members of public universities; no relationship between the occupational stress and overall job satisfaction in case of both male and female faculty members of universities; young age university teachers are more sensitive to the occupational stress and job satisfaction; and no significant relationship is found between the occupational stress and overall job satisfaction in faculty members of universities across the nature of job; visiting, contract and permanent.

Highlights

The developing countries are in transitional phase of development, newly exposed to economic integration and started experiencing workforce diversity to larger extent
The Pearson correlation indicates: no significant relationship found between job satisfaction and overall occupational stress; inverse relationship is found between the occupational stress and overall job satisfaction in faculty members of private universities; is no relationship between the occupational stress and overall job satisfaction in faculty members of public universities; no relationship between the occupational stress and overall job satisfaction in case of both male and female faculty members of universities; young age university teachers are more sensitive to the occupational stress and job satisfaction; and no significant relationship is found between the occupational stress and overall job satisfaction in faculty members of universities across the nature of job; visiting, contract and permanent
The correlation statistics indicate that there is no relationship between the occupational stress and overall job satisfaction in faculty members of Public Universities

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Introduction

The developing countries are in transitional phase of development, newly exposed to economic integration and started experiencing workforce diversity to larger extent. Higher education sector is among the highly influenced sectors of this transition and takes major responsibility to direct the nation towards right path. The faculty of universities promises to meet this great challenge of attaining objectives of higher education, which resultantly puts high stress on them. The stress bearing capacity is backed by their level of satisfaction to the institutions. The highly stressed and poorly satisfied faculty cannot help the universities to compete such global challenges. The universities in Pakistan and other countries of developing nations need to adopt continuous job satisfaction and occupational stress assessment programs and investigate their causal relationship. Due to the service oriented nature of the job, faculty of universities is in direct contact with graduates/customers, and highly satisfied faculty with low level of stress can produce stratified graduates and make long-term impact on university branding

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