A Study on Occupational Stress among Public, Private and Co-operative Bank Employees: A Comparative Study

Stress is a universal element and persons from nearly every walk of life have to face stress. Stress can have negative impacts on both the employee and the organization. Actually, in this research paper it was checked that what the impact occupational stress produced upon employees. The study describes the occupational stress in public, private and Co-operative sector banks. A randomly selected sample of 60 employees from Public, private and Co-operative Sector banks shows that occupational stress is found higher among private bank employees compared to public and Co-operative bank employees. Among different occupational stress variables having too much work load, dealing with ambiguous or delicate situation, lack of consultation and communication, keeping up with new techniques, ideas and technology, Inadequate guidance and back up from supervisors contribute more to the occupational stress. Bank employees cannot afford the time to relax and "wind down" when they are faced with work variety, discrimination, favoritism, delegation and conflicting tasks.