Job Stressors towards Organizational Change: A Study of Textile Industries of Northern India

Abstract

Changes are inevitable even in the organization and as a result of this most of the industrial organization not only in India but throughout the glob have brought up some changes especially technological changes to compete in the consumer market. Textile industries in Northern India are one of them. Hence, the present study was aimed at studying the job stress towards organizational change with special reference to textile industries where thousands of blue-collars are engaged in performing their job activity. For the present study the information on such problem collected through Indian based standardized questionnaire schedules were randomly administered on all individual employees working in textile industries in different districts of Northern India namely, Azamgarh, Gorakhpur, Kanpur, Mau, and Meerut etc., these districts are in U.P.-a state of Northern India. Having colleted the information on the items of schedules from blue-collar employees (N= 450) of textile industries, obtained data were tabulated according to procedures and analyzed by standard multiple regression analysis using SSP. The results revealed that "responsibility for persons", "intrinsic impoverishment" , "low status", "unprofitability"-the dimensions of job stress and some biographical variables, namely, "age" and "experience in the present position" have been found as real predictors of organizational change, although, all blue-collar employees have shown greater acceptance to change. Findings of the present study have been discussed in detail by highlighting the probable reasons in the exigency of situations prevailing now in India.