JIMS8M: The Journal of Indian Management & Strategy
Web of Science
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue: 2

Impact of work stress on job performance among IT professionals

*Assistant Professor, Department of M.BA, VSKU, Bellary

**Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, Govt. First Grade College, Kurogoodu, Ballary

Online published on 18 July, 2018.

Abstract

The empirical studies show that Job stress and job performance are negatively correlated. In other words, lower the stress higher the performance and vice -versa. The stress comes from many sources and it is prevailing in every industry. IT sector is one of the industry which is always treated as stressful. The nature of work in today's competitive world is changing at rapid speed. The objective of the study is to examine the job stress in IT company. The data is collected from structured questionnaire. The student t test is used for statistical significance. A sample of 150 respondents were selected from various IT firms of Bangalore based on random sampling method.

Keywords

Job Stress, Job Performance, It Sector, Student T Test