STUDY ON JOB STRESS AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF WOMEN SOFTWARE EMPLOYEES
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2012, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Stress at work is a relatively new phenomenon of modern life style. The nature of work has gone through drastic changes over the last century as it is still changing at whirlwind speed. Stress has touched almost all professions. Stress poses a threat to physical health of the individual. Work related stress in the life of organized workers, consequently affects the health of organizations. Stress is high in software profession because of their nature of work, target, achievements, night shift, over work load. Very few though have looked at IT employees, in particular women and their quality of life. Thus, the present study focuses on the job stress and quality of women software employees. Descriptive research design is adopted and universe is the women employees of the software industries at Bangalore. The researcher adopted snow ball sampling technique and sample size of was confirmed to 201. It was concluded that job stress influences the quality of life of software employees. It is also concluded that the demographic variables do influence the level of job stress and quality of life of software employees.
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L. Ranjit and L. Mahespriya
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