Workplace Stress – Causes of Work Place Stress in Police Department: A Proposal for Stress Free Workplace

Abstract

Police Department is one of the important department for societal wellbeing. Police have to work round the clock to keep public safe. Throughout the day they are doing a restless job. They don't have week end holiday and occasional holiday. In fact, on those days they have to work even harder in the name of bandhubast duty. Because of this they are not getting time to spend with their family members, which leads to frustration. Further, this frustration may manifest as depression and they will lose interest in their job. If we keenly observe, out of 100 police men 80% of them will be having procrastinating attitude, impatience, and irritability etc which are the symptoms of Stress. And nowadays the suicide attempts are also on the rise in police department. Role overload, role conflict, role ambiguity, poor peer relations, low status etc., are the key variables for the research problem. The present study will help to develop more appropriate strategies to cope with workplace stress and that these could be incorporated into a more fully integrated set of human resource policies for better performance of police department in the study region.