Occupational Stress among Work Force- Engineering Colleges Perspective

Abstract

Contemporary life is full of hassles, deadlines, frustrations, and demands. Due to mammoth changes in business world recruits has become the chief factor for success in many companies and equivalently the stress among the employees also steeply increased which resulted in obligatory life. Teaching field is not an exemption from this circumstances hence all the fields irrespective of their work all are experiencing stress in their professional life and stress has become part of employee’s life. It is a recognized fact that a lecturer is a nation draughtsman and a genuine creator of the future, thus a fine lecturer must have a neutral mind to concentrate on the work. The study is conducted to explore the occupational stress factors among engineering college faculty members. The primary data is collected from 120 faculty members who were selected by convenience sampling method. To explore occupational stress factors the collected data is analyzed with help of the principal component analysis and further identified the variance and reliability of the factors loaded. The results highlighted that workload, career growth, relationships and role ambiguity are the key factors of occupational stress.