organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

Lrtanrrn (1970) war employed to areas the subjects' role stress.The Job Anxiety Scde atandardised by Sriycrstam (1974) wasused. One of the seven subscales of the Employee's MotivationSchedule standardized by Snuastatm (1984) was administered tothe Ss to assess heir lwel of work related need for achievement.fhe results md~cated that the employee's 11-Ach markedlymoderates the role stress-job anxtety relat~onship.Moms and Snyder (1980) ~n theu study on 262 public sectoremployees, found that need for achlevemcnt and need forautonomv la~led to pronde convincing emdence of penCasive linearmudrrattng ellecrs between role stress variables. role confl~ct androle ambigu~ty and thc outcomes organlsatlonal commitment, job~nvolvcment, psvrhosomatlc complaints and propenslp to leavethe organ~sat~onIn order to understand the moderating effects of need forach~wement. the charactenst~cs of ind~vlduals who are high mnerd for ach~cvcmetn should be examinedIn terms of thetnsrrument used in th~study [Fnes and Knox. 19721, htgh-need-for-ach~evement md~v~dualn possess the follomg charactensttcs(a) they are mom goal-onented; (bl thev plan water ernphas~s onaccompliahmg udcs ar qu~ckly as possible (c) thq plece peter