organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

Although there are many coplng strategies suggested byresearchers, most approaches d~stingu~sh between strategres thatare active m natlve and onented towards confront~ng the problem,and strategws that entatl an effort to reduce tenslon by avo~dmgdeahng wth the problemThe present study made an attempt tod~scover the major coplng styles adopted by bank employees tomanage theu occupational stressSeven coptng stratepesdeveloped by Deve and Guest (1989) are mcorporated m this studyto Identify the coping strategy used by the respondents They areRelaxation Technique (RT) ,Strateves for preparation (SOP),Util~sation of Home resources (UHR) ,Dlstract~on techniques (DT) ,Rat~onal task Onented Behavlour (RTOB),Pass~ve Attempts (PA) . andEmotional relief ( ER )This part of analysis throws light on the coping stylefollowed by all respondents as well as by the respondents of eachsector It also explores the vanahon m coplng styles among the