Stress at Work Place: A Study with Reference to Police Personnel of Gajapathi District, Odisha

By : Kalyan Chakravarthy Parle

Page No: 443-451

Abstract
Job stress is a matter of concern in current scenario. Work stress results in disruption of psychological as well as physiological homeostasis of the individual, leading to deviant functioning in the working environment. The present study represents a focused interest in stress research that it seeks to isolate specific selfreported organizational stressors that may negatively impact police performance. Stress scale was used to gather primary data of 303 participants from the universal size of 1010. Student independent sample T-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and descriptive statistics were used in data analysis. The findings showed the stress levels of the respondents have a meaningful impact on job. The descriptive statistics of all the variables are medium, kurtosis is negative, Independent sample T-test indicated that there is no gender difference in opinion. The results indicate that the stress variables are statistical significant with working hour of the respondents as the working hours increased the stress also increases. Implications of the findings are discussed.

Author :
Kalyan Chakravarthy Parle : Assistant Professor, School of Management, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/PROD.2019.60.04.9