Demographical Study on Occupational Stress among the Faculty Members with Special Reference to Business Schools in India
Keywords:
Occupational Stress, burnout, psychological and physical health, role overload, workplaceAbstract
Teaching profession involves imperative and lofty place in the society and basically in the management education. With the evolving financial situation and expanding joblessness, the estimations of educator and their expert concerns and increasing unemployment, the values of teacher and their professional concerns associated with the job have undergone a change, increasing stresses and hassles of teachers. In concurrence with the ascertained importance of faculties role in the Management Education system, the present research is an attempt to study the level of Occupational Stress of Business School faculty members with respect to age, gender, qualification, designation and income. The sample of 545 Business School faculty members from various macro and micro cities of India has been selected adopting convenient sampling technique. Faculty members occupational stress was accessed with the help of Teacher Stress Scale developed by Dr. K. S. Mishra. The descriptive survey method was adopted for the study. The data, which has obtained from that survey, has been analysed using SPSS software, T-test and one-way ANOVA. The study reveals that a significant difference exists between age, gender, qualification, designation, income and Occupational Stress of the faculty members with special reference to Business Schools in India.
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