Identifying work stress factors among faculty of higher academic institutions in Oman

The present paper discusses the results of a study which was done to investigate some new factors leading to work stress among teaching faculty of higher education institutes in Oman. Faculties from both public and private institutes participated in this study. The main five factors namely Work Environment, Heavy Use of Information Technologies, Mobile Phone misuse by students, Teaching Performance and Time Pressure were identified as sources of work stress in this study. The responses confirmed those factors as sources of stress at their work. The weighted mean and standard deviation (SD) are reported in this paper.