Title: Workers occupational stress problem in selected industry

Authors: Nilufa Yeasmin; Anjuman Ara; Shamima Nasrin Khan; Md. Mosharraf Hossain

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology, Mirpur-12, Dhaka, Bangladesh ' Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Kazla, Rajshahi-6204, Bangladesh ' Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Kazla, Rajshahi-6204, Bangladesh ' Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Kazla, Rajshahi-6204, Bangladesh

Abstract: Occupational stress becomes an important agenda for managers and management scholars nowadays and it will remain in the future. Occupational stress is receiving increasing attention in the academic literature and has become a salient issue for the organisations. Occupational stress is the harmful physical and emotional responses. Job life is one of the important parts of our daily lives which cause a great deal of stress. This study is an initiative to explore how does stress stressors influences on work life of workers in contemporary jute mills in Bangladesh. Study reveals that working conditions, environmental conditions, role ambiguity, organisational structure, home-work-interface, etc. are the greatest source of stress and workers perceived that working environment and home work interface have perceived as top most stressors of jute mills in Bangladesh. It is statistically significant that there is no perceived difference in stress level of two stressors, i.e., environmental conditions and home-work-interface of jute mills in Bangladesh. After assessment of occupational stress, a module of stress management technique is given for stress reduction.

Keywords: occupational stress; stressors; questionnaire; WOS scale; jute mills; Bangladesh; stress management; working conditions; environmental conditions; role ambiguity; organisational structure; home-work interface; stress reduction.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2015.068495

International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2015 Vol.10 No.3, pp.318 - 334

Received: 16 Nov 2013
Accepted: 27 Dec 2013
Published online: 30 Apr 2015 *

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