organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

mrital status, residence, distance from residence to place of work.distance from place of domicile to place of work, entry andprevlous job experience. Some of the conclusions draw by Senwere that role etagnation decreases as people advance in age, age18 negauvely related with role stress. Women experience more rolestress as compared to men.Role stress ia inversely related tomcome; the h~gher the tncome, the less 18 the level of reported rolestress.personsUnmamed persons expenence more stress than marriedThis may be due to thetr cornparaove lack of securitynerd, rcsult~ng Inactualuat~on needsh~gher self-esteem, autonomy and self-Persons from urban background madeexpenence more stressBhatnagar and Bose [ 1985) made and attempt to ~dentlfy ageand leadersh~p srvlrs as correlates of 10 types of role sursses. Forthts purpose. Leadrr Elfectlveness and Adapcabihty Descnpuon(LEAD) (Heraey and Blanchard, 1972) and ORS Scale (Parrek,1983cl wem admtnlstercdMeans, SD and Person's productmoment coeffiaents of correlaoon were used to analp the data.The frndrngs of d ~e study revealed that branch managers scoredlorn on role unb~guity, self-role &stance and role stagnaaon