Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002
Online published on 29 March, 2012.
Job Involvement is an important work related phenomenon which influences work performance. It is, indeed, true that job involvement and work performance are the function of anumber of psycho-social factors. In view to this fact, the present study was aimed to study job involvement among people afflicted with major diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart problems as well as those people with no major prolonged diseases.
In light of the objectives of the present study, it is hypothesized that healthy and normal faculty members would have greater job involvement and work performance as compared to those suffering with severe diseases. For this purpose a sample of N =94 people in which 50 representing healthy normal teaching faculties and 44 teaching faculties afflicted with chronic diseases were selected using the purposive random sampling technique from a Central University. Chronic patients were administered two questionnaires (one the job involvement scale and the other, illness perception questionnaire) but ailment-free employees were administered job involvement measure only for the purpose of comparative assessment. Thereafter, data were analyzed by giving are K-S statistical treatment. The result is in line with the hypothesis. Results have been exhaustively and rationally discussed in the light of the experiences especially, of the various types of chronically ill patients consisting of teaching faculties.
