EFFECT OF STRESS ON THE JOB PERFORMANCE OF VETERINARY ASSISTANT SURGEONS IN TELANGANA REGION OF ANDHRA PRADESH
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2003
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SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA
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Veterinary Assistant Surgeons (VASs) are engaged in transferring technologies to the farming community. In this process the stress experienced by the VASs is multi-dimensional and needs a deep probing. The relation of stress with job performance is complex. The research findings brought out that when stress is not properly coped with, it affects the performance in a dysfunctional style resulting in exhaustion, irritation, ineffectiveness, inaction etc. If properly channelled, results in a feeling of challenge, job satisfaction, creativity and a better adjustment to work and life. Hence, it is considered worthwhile to find out the sources of stress and its effect on job performance of VASs. The present study was conducted following ex-post facto research design and simple random sampling technique taking 30 VASs each from three districts to arrive at total of 90 VASs in the entire Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh state. Questionnaires developed for the study were administered to all the respondents and the responses were scored and analysed using the appropriate statistical tests. The research study revealed that majority of the VASs were middle aged, graduates, possessed small family size, had medium family income, experience, span of control, acquired medium technical knowledge, perceived medium workload, work facilities, average organizational communication, had medium work motivation and medium coordination between line departments. The level of overall stress experienced was to a moderate extent by all the VASs. The major sources of personal stress were lack of time for personal care, performing multiple roles, unfulfilled commitments and increased expenditure. The significant sources of familial stress were working at a far away place from home, financial expectations of relatives, lack of own house and inadequate attention on education of children.
A large majority of VASs expressed that attending numerous meetings, work over load, lack of personal growth and attending works other than job responsibilities as the sources of job stress. More than half of the VASs viewed lack of needed facilities at place of work, lack of conveyance for field visits and cumbersome report writing as the sources of organizational stress. Majority of VASs in the study area rated themselves as medium job performers. Stress has shown negative relationship with job performance at a significant level (P<0.01). Stress was correlated significantly (P<0.05) and positively with selected characteristics like span of control and work load perception, while negatively and significantly related with organizational communication, work motivation and coordination (P<0.01). The variables viz., span of control, organizational communication and coordination explained maximum variation in stress of VASs. Job performance of VASs in Telangana region was positively and significantly related with variables like job experience (P<0.05), age, technical knowledge, organizational communication, work motivation and coordination (P<0.01), while negatively and significantly related with span of control (P<0.05) and workload perception (P<0.01). Maximum variation in job performance was explained by four variables viz., span of control, technical knowledge, work motivation and coordination. The major personal coping strategies followed regularly by VASs were taking good balanced diet, listening music, watching T.V. and getting proper sleep. Occasionally, they followed strategies like physical exercise and seeking social support to overcome personal stress. The organizational stress coping mechanisms followed regularly were active involvement in work, time management and prioritisation and effective communication. They also adopted occasionally the strategies like skill improvement and decentralisation to over come their organizational stress.
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