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organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

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Role overloadSales and House (1971) state that RO is a situation in whichemployees feel they are being asked to do more than time or abilitypermits.Thus, it occurs when an individual is not able tocomplete the work assigned to him. When an individual has toperform too manv actlwtres, he is subject to quantitative overloadand when he has to perform tasks that are too difficult for him, he1s subject to qualitative overload (French and Caplan, 1973).Worhng under extreme tlme pressure is espec~ally <strong>stress</strong>ful andthe employee's adjustment to work also gets d~storted resulting innegatlve attltude towards the job.Role ConflictWhen the behaviour expected of an individual by others inthe organiaation is inconsistent, he wtll be in a state of roleconflict. There are generally two type of RC, namely inter-senderRC and intra-sender RC is where two diRirent groups of people61

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