Occupational Stress Among the Teachers of a State Agricultural University

In contemporary societies majority of people seem to be talking about stress and its various consequences. Individual’s reactions to severe stress has become the major concern of the stress researchers in different disciplines. Job life, wherein, employees spend more than one third of their daily routine is the major source of satisfaction of their various needs, as well as of frustration and stress. Occupational stress has been noted to put impairing effect on employee’s job behaviour and physical and psychological well-being, representing serious cost to organizations in decision and monetary terms. Taking that into account, a study was undertaken in Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha to measure occupational stress among the teachers of that university. The findings of the study suggest that teachers experience various levels of occupational stress. It was noted that the respondents get higher level of occupational stress due to miserable current career opportunities, the way changes and innovations were implemented in the institution and health issues due to occupational stress as because they don’t feel that they are playing a usual part in things followed by they don’t feel capable of making decisions about things. As an output of this study we have also devised corrective managerial action goals.