organisational behaviour

Occupational stress index is framed by Srivastava and Singh

it consist of 46 items relevant to job life causing stress in one way or other

Employees having too much work to do and not enough time or resources to do it can be stressful. role overload exists when demand exceed the capacity of manager and employee to meet all of them. Having too little to do also may create stress..

Role Ambiguity arises when the scope and responsibilities of the job are unstructured or poorly defined

Differing expectations of or demands of a person at work produce role conflict.

Organizational Politics “ Organizational politics involves those activities by organizations to acquire, develop, and use power and other resources to obtain one’s preferred outcomes in a situation in which there is uncertainty or dissent about choices.

Prompt payment of wages

Treatment of co wokers

Fair treatment of customers

Job security

Promotion

Transfer

Development opportunity

Participation in the decision-making process has been widely recommended as a means of improving the quality of work life.

A feeling of powerlessness is a universal cause of job stress.

The most highly stressed occupations

Secretaries

waitresses

middle managers

police officers

editors and

medical interns

Peer relationships refer to relationships between employees at the same hierarchical level who have no formal authority over one another.

Intrinsic improvement

Low status

working conditions that can cause stress in employees.

temperature extremes

loud noise

too much or too little lighting

radiation and

air pollution

Organizational change have impact on the working conditions

Change in team members

Line managers

Type of work

Technology used by team

Bringing in no profit or profits: an unprofitable business venture.