*Associate Professor, VIT Business School, VIT University, Vellore-632014, Tamil Nadu, India
**Associate Professor, P.G. Department of Psychology, Ranchi University, Ranchi
Online published on 11 December, 2013.
This study focuses on the effect of salary (High and low paid job workers) on job stress.
To study the effect of income or salary (High and Low paid job workers) on job stress with high risk and low risk categories.
The Occupational Stress Index developed by Srivastava and Singh (1981) was administered on 200 workers of Tata Motors Ltd, Jamshedpur.
Result has clearly indicated that income or salary (high and low) played a significant role in creating stress in workers. Low paid workers clearly showed greater stress compared to high paid workers in both high risk and low risk categories. Role overload, role ambiguity, role conflict, responsibility of persons, unreasonable group pressures, under participation, poor peer relations, low status, strenuous working conditions, intrinsic impoverishment, unprofitability were the factors which contributed more occupational stress.
Low paid job workers had significantly greater stress compared to high paid job workers.
Occupational Stress, High and Low paid salary, Nature of jobs, Industrial workers
