A Comparative Analysis: Causes of Stress Among The Employees And Its Effect on The Performance At The Workplace In Agricultural Research And Informaton Technology Sectors

Author(s) : KDV Prasad, Rajesh Vaidya, V Anil Kumar
ISSN : 0974-497
Year : November 2016 | Volume : 10 | Issue : 4/4

Abstract: The reported research study focuses on the wide spread silent issue the ”Stress” and throws a light on a comparative analysis of causes of stress among the employees and its effect on the employee’s performance at the workplace in Agriculture Research Sector (ARS) and Information Technology Sector (ITS), and determine the level of differences if any, among both the sector employees. A survey of 150 employees each of the ARS and ITS respectively carried out to assess the twelve independent variables and its effect on employees’ performance a dependent variable. The descriptive analysis, correlation techniques and parametric statistics like t-test and F-tests carried out to arrive at the conclusions. To measure the reliability of the scale used for this research, and internal consistencies of the survey questionnaire, the reliability static Cronbach's alpha (C-alpha) is used. The C-alpha values for all the variables ranged from 0.60 to 0.74 for ARS from 0.64 to 0.84 for ITS, whereas the overall C-alpha values are, 0.74 and 0.84 for ARS and ITS respectively. The study concluded that the impact of occupational stress on performance for the ARS Employees is moderate and when compared with the ITS, which reported higher impact on its performance than ARS. The results indicate that the job related stress in general and the stress factor job security in particular effects the employee performance in IT sector. Health-wise, some employees had developed chronic neck and back pain, an effect of long sitting hours at work. The study was conducted in Metro city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.


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