A critical analysis of stress faced by teaching professionals at management institutes in Pune with special references to role stressors

Abstract

The emergence of management institutes in Pune is a recent development due to the impact of globalization, urbanization and rapid technological changes. The management teaching professionals are the facilitators for knowledge and skill through interactive learning methods and have to perform varied duties. The role, responsibilities and teaching activities of a teaching faculty member at management institutes have undergone a change with the recent change in the education process. Hence they may face stress through common work and nonwork stressors. Also, today the young teaching professionals are confronted with the problem of dual role conflict i.e. the work role and the family role. In an attempt to balance both these roles, the faculty experiences stress. As teaching is a stressful occupation, attempts need to be made to study stress in management faculty members. There is notable absence of research on stressors related to specific teacher groups in Indian context. Therefore, the present investigation was planned with three basic premises namely the effects of stress are influenced by gender and length of service, various personal, family and situational factors are responsible for stress and the stress-effects are associated with role stressors and job satisfaction in teaching faculty members. Descriptive research design was chosen for the study. A conceptual frame work was made to study the effects of stress caused by various antecedent factors in management faculty members. Based on the framework independent and dependent variables were selected. The independent variables included were individual and job related factors. The dependent variables were the effects of stress.