Study on the causes of stress among the employees in it sector and its effect on the employee performance at the workplace with special reference to international agricultural research institute, Hyderabad: A comparative analysis

The reported study focuses on the wide spread silent issue the “Stress” and throws a light on a comparative analysis of causes of stress among the employees and its effect on the employee performance at the workplace in International Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and Information Technology Sector (ITS), and determine the level of differences if any, among both the areas employees.
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Study on the causes of stress among the employees in it sector and its effect on the employee performance at the workplace with special reference to international agricultural research institute, Hyderabad: A comparative analysis International Journal of Management (IJM) Volume 7, Issue 4, May–June 2016, pp.76–98, Article ID: IJM_07_04_006 Available online at http://www.iaeme.com/ijm/issues.asp?JType=IJM&VType=7&IType=4 Journal Impact Factor (2016): 8.1920 (Calculated by GISI) www.jifactor.com ISSN Print: 0976-6502 and ISSN Online: 0976-6510 © IAEME Publication STUDY ON THE CAUSES OF STRESS AMONG THE EMPLOYEES IN IT SECTOR AND ITS EFFECT ON THE EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE AT THE WORKPLACE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, HYDERABAD: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS K.D.V. Prasad Research Scholar, Faculty of Commerce Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur Dr. Rajesh Vaidya Associate Professor, Kamla Nehru Mahavidyalaya, Nagpur, Maharashtra V Anil Kumar Visiting Scientist, Bioinformatics and Statistics Division, ICRISAT Patancheru 502 324, Telangana, India ABSTRACT The reported study focuses on the wide spread silent issue the “Stress” and throws a light on a comparative analysis of causes of stress among the employees and its effect on the employee performance at the workplace in International Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and Information Technology Sector (ITS), and determine the level of differences if any, among both the areas employees. A survey of 150 employees each of the IARI and ITS respectively carried out to assess the twelve independent variables and its effect on employees’ performance, the dependent variable. The descriptive analysis, correlation techniques and parametric statistics like t-test and F- tests carried out to arrive at the conclusions. To measure the reliability of the scale used for this research, and internal consistencies of the survey questionnaire, the reliability static Cronbach's alpha (C-alpha) is used. The C-alpha values for all the variables ranged from 0.60 to 0.70 for IARI, from 0.70 to 0.80 for ITS, whereas the overall C-alpha values are, 0.74 and 0.84 for IARI and ITS respectively. The study concluded that the impact of http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.asp 76 editor@iaeme.com Study on The Causes of Stress Among The Employees In It Sector and Its Effect on The Employee Performance at The Workplace With Special Reference To International Agricultural Research Institute, Hyderabad: A Comparative Analysis occupational stress on performance for the IARI Employees is moderate and when compared with the ITS, which reported higher impact on its performance than IARI. The results indicate that the job related stress in general and the stress factor job security in particular effects the employee performance in IT sector. Health-wise, some employees had developed chronic neck and back pain, an effect of long sitting hours at work. The study was conducted in Metro city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Keywords: Job related stress, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Information Technology Sector (ITS), performance, Cronbach’s alpha, stress Cite this Article: K.D.V. Prasad, Dr. Rajesh Vaidya and V Anil Kumar, Study on The Causes of Stress Among The Employees In It Sector and Its Effect on The Employee Performance at The Workplace With Special Reference To International Agricultural Research Institute, Hyderabad: A Comparative Analysis. International Journal of Management, 7(4), 2016, pp.76–98. http://www.iaeme.com/ijm/issues.asp?JType=IJM&VType=7&IType=4 1. INTRODUCTION The origin of the concept of stress predates antiquity. The term derived from the Latin word “Stringere” to mean hardship, strain, adversity or affliction. The occupational stress has been of great concern to employees and other stakeholders of organizations. The researchers agree that occupational stress is a serious problem in many organizations (Cooper and Cartwright, 1994; Varca, 1999; Ornelas and Kleiner, 2003). The cost of occupational stress is very high in many organizations in recent times. For instance, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) reports that inefficiencies arising from occupational stress may cost up to 10 percent of a country‘s GNP (Midgley, 1996). Occupational stress is defined as the perception of a discrepancy between environmental demands (stressors) and individual capacities to fill these demands (Topper, 2007; Vermut and Steensma, 2005; Ornels and Kleiner, 2003). Christo and Pienaar (2006) argued that the causes of occupational stress include perceived loss of job and security, sitting for long periods of time or heavy lifting, lack of safety, complexity of repetitiveness and lack of autonomy in the job. In addition, occupational stress is caused by lack of resources and equipment; work schedules— such as working late or overtime and organizational climate are considered as contributors to employees stress. Occupational stress often shows high dissatisfaction among the employees, job mobility, burnout, poor work performance and less effective interpersonal relations at work (Manshor, Rodrigue, and Chong, 2003). Johnson (2001) similarly argued that interventions like identifying or determining the signs of stress, identifying the possible causes for the signs and developing possible proposed solutions for each signs are required. Stress is man‘s adaptive reaction to an outward situation which would lead to physical, mental and behavioral changes. According to Matthews (2001) stress can be experienced from four b ...