An Empirical Study on Impact of Selected Stress Variables on Employee Behaviour

Abstract

The study contributes to a deeper understanding of the impact of different stress factors such as insufficient time, job security on employee behaviour in engineering colleges with respect to Vijayawada city. It analyses the relationship between stress factors (independent variables) and employee behaviour (dependent variable) in the work place. The data employed to analyze the factors were obtain through a questionnaire that was conducted in February 2016 in Vijayawada a city in India.Stress is a term that is widely used in everyday life with most people having some appreciation about its meaning. Professional stress can be defined as the psychological and emotional responses that befall when employeesobserve an imbalance between their job demands and their capability to meet these demands. The triumph of any organization or its catastrophe depends on the employees’ behavior. Therefore, the present study is an analysis of the employee behaviour. The major findings of the study indicated that inadequate time (stress factor) is not influencing anxiousness (behaviour factor), insufficient time (stress factor) is influencing incompatible nature of employees (behaviour factor), insufficient time (stress factor) is influencing escape nature of employees (behaviour factor),  job security (stress factor) is not influencing regularity (behaviour factor), job security (stress factor) is influencing responsibility (behaviour factor).