Job Involvement and Job Stress Perceived by the Employees – An Empirical Study

Abstract

The main aim of the study is to find out the Job involvement and Work Stress prevail among the employees in private sector at Tiruchirappalli District. The researcher like to find out the association and difference between the social demographic variable with the Job involvement and Work Stress and also to provide suitable suggestion to improve the employee standard. The researcher formulated five hypothesis for this present study. The research is descriptive in nature because the researcher like to describe the characteristic of the respondents. The universe of the study consists employee from 10 different industry. From the universe the researcher adopted stratified dis propionate random sampling using lottery method the data was be collected from 500 respondents. To measure the level of job involvement, the researcher used the standardized tool developed by Agarval (1972). The questionnaire consists of five dimensions namely and to measure the level of stress, Linkers (1998)scale was used. The questionnaire consists of two dimensions. Questionnaire method were adopted to collect the data from the respondents. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) were adopted for analyzing the collected data. While analyzing the dimension more than half 53.2 percent of the respondent have low level of Job Analysis and less than half 46.8 2 percent of the respondent have high level of Job Analysis. More than half 56.8 percent of the respondent have low level of Job Interest and less than half 43 2 percent of the respondent have high level of Job Interest. More than half 55.2 percent of the respondent have low level of Job Autonomy and less than half 44 8 percent of the respondent have high level of Job Autonomy. More than half 50.8 percent of the respondent have low level of Job Motivation and less than half 49 2 percent of the respondent have high level of Job Motivation. More than half 53.2 percent of the respondent have low level of Job Commitment and less than half 46 8 percent of the respondent have high level of Job Commitment and the overall Job involvement reveals more than half 51.6 percent of the respondent have low level of Job involvement and less than half 48 4 percent of the respondent have high level of Job Involvement. While analyzing the stress level more than half 55.6 percent of the respondent have low level of individual stress and remaining 44.4 percent of the respondent have high level of individual stress. Slightly more than half 50. 4 percent of the respondent have low level of organization stress and less than half 49.6 percent of the respondent have high level of organization stress. While analyzing the overall stress level it reveals that slightly more than half 50. 8 percent of the respondent have low level of stress and less than half 49.2 have high level of stress.

Keywords: Job Involvement, Stress, Employee, respondent