organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

Pandey (1997) conducted a study to determine- therelationshipbetween personal demographics and organizationalrole stress. The study was conducted on 61 personnel of IndianRailways (aged 28-58 years ).Rol stresses were measured byadministering the Organizational Role Stress Scale (Pareek,1983~). The analysis revealed a positive but non-significantrelationship of age with all the dimensions of role stress exceptrole ambiguity.Similarly, education showed positive but non-significant correlation with all the 10 dimensions of role stress.Expenencc was reported tobe positively and significantlyassoc~ated wth ~nter-role distance, role expectation conflict, roleamb~gu~ty, personal ~nadequacy, role stagnation, role erosion, andself-role distance.The man findings of Kumar's (1989) study mdicated thatunmamed executives, executives marned to worlung women, andmarketing executives experienced significantly higher total rolestress. Role stagnation. and personal inadequacy were found to besignificantly higher among lower level executives.