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    Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction Among Panchayath Development Officers in Dharwad District
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-07) Anita; Chitagubbi, Geeta
    An exploratory study on occupational stress and job satisfaction was undertaken in the College of Rural Home Science, University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad during 2016-17 covering Dharwad district with a sample size of 90 panchayat development officers to analyse the level of occupational stress and job satisfaction among them. Pre-tested, self structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. An Occupational Stress Index and Job Satisfaction Scale were used to identify the stressors, stress level and job satisfaction level. The data was subjected to percentage and correlation analysis. The results revealed that the events which caused high stress in cent per cent of the panchayat development officers were, occurrence of sudden meetings followed by criticism by higher authority (87.77%). The cent per cent of the respondents said that, high stress due to poor infrastructure facilities like lack of electricity, office cabinets followed by chairs (52.22 %), water facility (46.66 %), separate rooms (44.44 %) and tables (35.55 %). About 78.88 per cent of stress was caused due to sleep disruption and 70 per cent stress was due to the participation in decision making followed by health problems such as head ache, back pain (64.44%) and due to the frequent transfer (47.77%). The least cause for stress was unpredictable happening (15.55 %). Majority of the panchayat development officers had high stress because of work demand stress (81.75%) and almost all panchayat development officers had very low job satisfaction (91.11%). Occupational stress and job satisfaction of panchayat development officers were significantly and positively related. Remedies for reducing occupational stress as per respondents were improving managerial skills, offering awards to the recognition of best work and giving the meditation for the peace of life