Abstract
Recent studies on the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction have attracted significant attentions from researchers. The literatures on organizational stress, work related stress consists of two important dimensions: physiology and psychology. The ability of employees to appropriately handle stress in performing job may have a significant impact on individual outcomes, especially job satisfaction. Although the relationship is important, the role of work related stress as an important determinant has been given less attention in organizational stress research literature. Thus, this study was done to measure the association between work related stress and job satisfaction using self-report questionnaires collected from Malaysian peacekeeping personnel at a conflicting Middle Eastern country. The outcomes of testing hypothesis using SmartPLS path model analysis highlighted four important findings: first, physiological stress was significantly associated with job satisfaction. Second, psychological stress was significantly associated with job satisfaction. The finding confirms that work related stress does act as an important determinant of job satisfaction in the organizational sample. Further, discussion, implications and conclusion are elaborated. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s3p647
Highlights
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) reported that almost 10 percent of workplace problems are stress-related, the organization’s ability to effectively manage the stress of its emplyees can help the organisation sustains its performance (International Labour Organizsation-ILO, 2013)
The values of average variance extracted (AVE) for each variable namely Physiological stress (PHS), psychological stress (PSS), and job satisfaction (JOS) were measured greater than 0.5, to show that the variable has fulfilled the satisfactory standard of convergent validity (Henseler et al, 2009; Barclay et al, 1995; Fornell & Larker, 1981)
The table shows that all variables which have the diagonal values of the square root of AVE were greater than the squared correlation with other variables in off diagonal, showing that this condition has met the acceptable standard of discriminant validity (Henseler et al, 2009)
Summary
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) reported that almost 10 percent of workplace problems are stress-related, the organization’s ability to effectively manage the stress of its emplyees can help the organisation sustains its performance (International Labour Organizsation-ILO, 2013). Such a situastion is common in military or security organizations. It is a well known fact that security personnel engaged in peacekeeping duties encounter numerous stressful situations that are often different to those encountered during combat operations (Greenberg et al, 2003). According to yet another study, security personnels going on peacekeeping mission needed to be carefully screened to avoid taking those who could not cope with stress of the mission; that maintenance of cohesion and morale in theatre requires more attention (English, 2000)
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