Occupational stress and its management a comparative study of information technology IT employees in Pune and Chandigarh

Abstract

The proposed study Occupational Stress and Its Management: A Comparative Study of Information Technology (IT) Employees in Pune and Chandigarh is based on the research which would be carried out in Pune which is known as an IT hub and Chandigarh city where the IT industries have come up in the last decade or so. Since a comparative research on this nature of the topic has not been carried out the researcher proposes to carry out the research on information technology organizations which are situated in Pune city and Chandigarh. Occupational stress can be found among the members of organizations of all sizes. However, it is usually presumed that larger the organization, greater the stress level that is why most of the studies done in this area focus primarily on large scale organizations. However, the interest of the reasons lies in studying the nature and extent of occupational stress in small scale organizations which have by and large been neglected by organizational studies. The present study focuses on the assess the degree of stress among the IT employees and attempt has been made to identify the factors causing stress for the respondents. The result of study shows that the majority of IT employees in Chandigarh and Pune city seem to have suffered from occupational stress because of various factors such as, workload, poor salary, time pressures and deadlines, frequent travel, repetitive and boring work and etc., which were important factors causing stress among them at the workplace. So, both selected IT organizations must take care about occupational stress and try to manage it before it creates various problems for the employees. newline