Job Stress Among Laboures at Malabar Spinning and Weaving Mill Limited, Kozhikode.

Abstract

The textile industry in India is a highly organized sector, with garment manufacturers, exporters, suppliers and wholesalers being the gateway to a garment industry in India. Organization life is stressful with the innovation of new technologies, global competition, Competitive pressures. Stressed workers are more likely to be harmful to health, inadequately motivated, not so much productive and unsafe at job. According to this study, stress is a dynamic state in which an individual is confronted with an opportunity, limitations, or need related to what he or she wants and the outcome is perceived as uncertain and important. Work stress is a harmful physical and emotional response that occurs when demands of the job do not match the skills, resources, or needs of the worker. Due to the time constrain, only 100 samples was collected for this study . A study of work stress helps to understand the current satisfaction level of employment of workers. Workload is the major factor which causes stress at work.