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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES AND OCCUPATIONAL

STRESS OF EMPLOYEES IN IT

Yesha Sheth*

Research Scholar, Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya

Email id: yeshasheth@gmail.com,*corresponding author.

Dr. Indra Sen Singh

Retired Professor, Mahatma Gandhi Labor Institute

Email Id: singh.mgli@gmail.com

Abstract:The main aim of this study is to

find out significant effect of age, gender and

tenure on occupational stress. Non

probability convenience sampling was used

and a sample of 207 respondents working in

information technology industry has been

taken. The Occupation Stress Index was

administered and it was found that gender,

age and tenure in the organization was found

to be having statistically significant effect on

occupational stress. The detailed findings

and the implications thereon are discussed.

Key Words: Demographic variables,

Information Technology, Stress,

Introduction

In today’s fast moving world everybody is

running in order to keep up the pace. In

doing so stress becomes an integral part of

everybody life. People feel stress in all

walks of life. Whether at home or at

workplace people are stressed. Stress is

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characterized as a natural boost that

influences people and can incite physical

and mental reactions. Stress in the

organization is termed as occupational stress

or in other words can be defined as stress

arising out of one’s job. Stress up to a

certain extent is necessary to keep going and

keeps employee motivated but after a certain

limit its can lead to health problems. It can

even lead to absenteeism, low productivity,

boredom and bad health of employees.

Information technology industry is an ever

dynamic industry where technology keeps

on changing in flicker of the eye. Hence in

order to keep pace with the current trends,

the employees have to keep them updated. If

not they will not be able to move ahead in

their work and hence feel unsatisfied and

bored.

Literature Review

Occupational stress refers to stress an

employee’s feel because of his job. (Rani

and Singh 2012) studied the primary

teacher’s occupational stress which was

moderate and found that there were no

differences in occupational stress with

respect to gender. Also Govt. and private

school teacher didn’t differ in their level of

stress.

(Agyemang and Arkorful 2013) studied the

impact of demographic factors on job stress

and job satisfaction of Ghanaians Customs

officer. Findings reveal that there were no

significant differences in terms of gender.

Moreover job rank had no impact on job

stress.

(Sharma and Kaur 2013) studied the impact

of age, income, length of service on stress.

The author found that above 2years age

group faced stress compared to other and

with income of more than Rs.50000

experienced more stress. Length of service

also predicted high level of stress.

(Sharma S., 2015) studied about the

demographic profiles of the Indian soldiers

and the findings of the study suggest

significant differences in designation, age,

experience and marital status with respect to

three occupational stressors, namely,

ineffective leadership style, lack of control

at work and role ambiguity. Also income

and qualification were significant for all

occupational stressors.

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(Aydin O., 2018) studied the hotel

management employees in Turkey. There

were significant difference found with

respect to gender and marital status of the

employees.

Research Methodology

Research Objective: The main objective is

to study the significant impact of

demographic variables like gender, age and

tenure in the current organization on

occupational role stress.

Hypothesis of the Study

First hypothesis:

H0: There is no significant impact of gender

on Occupational role stress.

Second Hypothesis

H0: There is no significant influence of age

on Occupational Role Stress

Third Hypothesis:

H0: There is no significant impact of tenure

in current company on Occupational Role

Stress.

Importance of the study: This study will

contribute to a better understanding of the

stress which the employees feel in the

organization respect to these variables and

further it can be useful in knowing how

managing role stress can help in retention of

employees in the organization.

The scope of the study includes employees

working at various levels in IT companies of

Pune and Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad.

Sampling technique used is Non- probability convenience sampling.

The sample includes 207 participants of IT

companies in Pune. Out of 207 respondents,

42% are female and 58% are male. Of total

207 respondents, 12.6% respondents are

between 20 to 24 years, 26.1% respondents

are between 25 to 29 years, 26.1%

respondents are between 30 to 34 years,

16.4% respondents are between 35 to 39

years, 7.2% are between 40 to 44 years,

6.8% respondents are between 45 to 49

years and 4.8% respondents are above 50

years. Moreover out of 207 samples, 10.6%

respondents have worked with current

company for less than 1 year, 16.4%

respondents have worked with current

company from 1year to 2 years, 25.1%

respondents have worked with current

company from 3 years to 5 years, 23.2%

respondents have worked with current