Correlates of Job Stress and Job Involvement among the Employees of Private Industries Limited, Tiruchirapalli District

Abstract

The term ‘Job Involvement’ is an indicator of how much an employee is involved in his/her job. For an organization, it is important that all its employees are highly involved in their jobs, that is, they should have high level of job involvement. Job involvement appears to be a construct that follows directly from the way individuals are affected by their immediate work environment and interpersonal relationships. Job stress comes in different forms and affects the mind and body in different ways. Major stress comes from having too much or not enough work or doing work that doesn't satisfy the person. Conflicts with the boss, coworkers, or customers are other major causes of stress. Psychological strain is often due to the culture and management style adopted within an organization. The main aim of the study is to study the correlation of Job Stress and Job Involvement among the Employees at Private Sectors in Tiruchirappalli District. In this study the researcher attempts to describe the various characteristics of job involvement and job stress and to measure its associates with the related socio-demographic variable and hence the researcher has adopted descriptive research design. The researcher adopted simple random sampling method to collect the samples. The universe of the study is 210 and out of which 157 were selected as respondents using lottery method.The researcher adopted standardized scale developed by Linkers (1998) to evaluate the stress level and to measure the level of job involvement, the researcher used the standardized tool developed by Agarval (1972). The data was analyzed and the finding reveals that more than half 51.6 percent of the respondents have low level of job involvement and less than half 48.4 percent of the respondents have high level of Job Involvement. The overall Job stress more than half 57.3 percent of the respondents have low level of job stress and less than half 42.7 percent of the respondents have high level of Job stress. The researcher suggest that Management has to involve the union at the highest levels as an equal partner from planning, through implementation, and evaluation of employee Involvement. In order to reduce the stress the management need to aarrange work properly, and improve or simplify the work process to avoid long hours of monotonous and repetitive work.

Keywords: Job Involvement, Job Stress, Job Autonomy, Job Motivation, Job Commitment