Effects of workplace stress on managers of textile industries of developing countries: A case study from Pakistan

Abstract

The Textile Industry is the biggest manufacturing Industry at Pakistan that has great notoriety in global businesses. Alike lots of other organizations, job stress has become a major concern in textile organizations as well. The goal of this study is to identify effects of stress among managers belonging to lower and middle level of textile sector organizations. In this cross-sectional study, information was gathered from 125 participants. Exploratory factor analysis was deployed and five components, namely: Physical, Psychological, Behavioral, Performance, and Physiological were identified as the areas where stress is impacting the managers of textile industry. ‘Internal Consistency’ for the components is around 0.7 through beyond 0.8 whereas ‘Total Variance Explained’ by the components is above 72% with ‘Physical’ being more significant. In order to affluence the circumstances, organizations are obliged to deploy interventions for prevention and control of the job stress among their employees in order to assure their wellbeing.