Occupational Stress among Bank Employees

Occupational stress is stress involving work. Occupational related stress "is the response people may have when presented with work demands and pressures that are not matched to their knowledge and abilities and which challenge their ability to cope. Occupational stress results from the complex interactions between large systems of interrelated variables. This study examined occupational stress among private and nationalized bank employees from Lucknow city. The method adopted for data collection is questionnaire schedule involving 120 male and female bank employees from private and nationalized sector. Hypothesis was tested for occupational stress among private and nationalized bank employees. The result shows that private bank employees had high occupational stress rather than nationalized bank employees. The correlation between independent variables and occupational stress is positive and negatively correlated with various components of occupational stress.