Study on Occupational stress among bank employees of rural and urban areas of Hisar district
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2021-04
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CCSHAU, Hisar
Abstract
Due to globalization, liberalization, increased competition in the banking sector, downsizing, the adoption of new technology, and so on, the banking sector has undergone rapid and striking policy changes in India. Because of these changes, employees are facing a high degree of stress in the banking sector.
The present study was conducted purposively in Hisar district of Haryana state, the sample was selected from public sector banks only as in rural areas, majority of public sector banks exist From the selected banks, 100 respondents each from rural and urban Public sector banks were selected purposively who were willing to co-operate and must be working in banking sector for minimum of 2 years, thus comprising a total sample size of 200 respondents. Data regarding dependent and independent variables were collected with the help of pre tested interview schedule. The inferences were drawn on the basis of frequency; percentage mean score, average mean score and Pearson’s coefficient of correlation.
Results revealed that Job oriented factor was found to be the biggest factor causing occupational stress in the respondents. A significant difference was found in comparison of factors causing occupational stress among employees in rural and urban banks and revealed that rural public sector bank employees faced high level of stress as compared to urban public sector bank employees. it was concluded that majority of the respondents were suffering from symptom of physical stress like headache, neck pain etc. various coping strategies like “meditation, motivation, relaxation technique, exercise, entertainment, healthy diet, social support system, sleep, religious and get to gather” were found to be adopted by rural and urban public sector bank employees.
It was found that relaxation was the most adopted strategy by the respondents to cope up with occupational stress and it was clearly found that age, education, designation, length of service (in years), distance travelled for bank(kms), family type and size were positively associated and correlated significantly with job oriented factors and problems & challenges in rural and urban public sector bank employees which means increased in these independent variables the occupational stress level also increased .