Stress at workplace is a growing concern in organisations which needs to be addressed. Employees face conditions of excessive pressure, heavy workload, job insecurity, low levels of job satisfaction, internal conflicts and lack of autonomy. Previous studies show that workplace stress has detrimental effect on the health and well-being of employees, as well as a negative impact on organisations results. However, employees first need to recognize the symptoms that indicate they are feeling stressed out, and employers should be aware of the consequences that stress has on their employees' health, well-being as well as on overall growth of organization. This paper aims to analyse the factors related to workplace stress among nurses in public and private hospitals and also its impact on psychological well-being of nursing staff. The influence of working hours or shift working on work related stress is also studied.
This study included 144 doctors and nurses from two age groups (more than 35 years and less than 35 years) from two categories (general and neuro sciences), from 9 hospitals. They were administered the Organizational Role Stress Scale (Dr. Udai Pareek, 1983) along with another data sheet. The results reveal that profession has a major effect on the experience of occupational role stress. Of the ten types of DRS, it has an important effect on eight of them, viz., role expectations conflict, role erosion, role overload, role isolation, personal inadequacy, self role distance, role ambiguity, role inadequacy. Inter role distance is one type which does not seem to be affected by any of the three variables studied either alone or in combination with one another. Nurses seemed to be more stressed than doctors on the whole.
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