A study of occupational stress among public and private sector bank employees

Adults spend more time at work than in any other activity. It is not surprising then, that job and career are central sources of stress. Some of the factors producing stress in a job setting are obvious; discrimination, extreme overload, role ambiguity, role conflicts and so on. Stress at work resulting from increasing complexities of work and its divergent demands has become a prominent and pervading feature of modern organizations. Actually occupational stress is acondition wherein job related factors interact with the worker to change (disrupt or enhance) his psychological condition such that the person is forced to deviate from them and from normal functioning. The aim of the present paper is to examine and compare the level of occupational stress experienced by public (N=150) and private (N=150) sector hank employees of Raebareli city by the purposive random sampling method. The population belongs to an age group of 30 to SO. Only males were considered in this research in order to control the gender effect. The t-test was used to analyze the data. Result indicated that occupational stress was higher in the private sector as compared to their counterparts in public sector organizations.