Work overload and distributive injustice as predictors of occupational stress among health workers

This study explored work overload and distributive injustice as predictors of occupational stress among employees of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu, Nigeria. Two hundred and thirteen (213) participants were drawn through simple random sampling technique. The participants’ age ranged from twenty-five to forty-nine (25–49) years, with a mean age of 34.14 years and standard deviation of 1.33 years. Occupational stress inventory by Salami (2003), Organizational justice scale by Niehoff and Moorman (1993) and Work overload scale by Reilly (1982) were used for data collection while a predictive design and multiple regression analysis were used as the appropriate design and statistical tool to analyze the data respectively. The result confirmed that work overload and distributive injustice significantly and positively predicted occupational stress among hospital staff. It is recommended that organizational management should make more resources available in order to reduce overload while encouraging fair treatment of employees across board. This will surely help to reduce the incidence of occupational stress.