Research Scholar, UGC_JRF Awardee,
Work plays a central role in the lives of many people, and thus the impact of occupational stress is an important issue both for individual employees and the organizations in which they work. Stress experienced at work can have adverse outcomes for the well-being of individual employees and organization as whole.
The present study aims to investigate the causes of role stress in doctors working in government hospitals and to examine the levels of stress among Male and Female doctors.
(Organizational Role Stress) ORS instrument developed by Prof. UdaiPareek was employed to collect the data from the respondents. Convenient sampling method was used to select the sampled units within the hospitals for the study. One hundred (100) questionnaires were distributed to the doctors and seventy three (73) completed questionnaires were received.
Findings of the study revealed that doctors are the serious sufferers of organizational role stress.
Doctors, India, ORS (Organizational Role Stress), Role Stress
