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| Factorizing towards the Prime Drivers of Job Stress: A study on Nursing Employees in Private Health Sector in SriLanka. |
Sammunkutty Sithy Hamila
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Abstract:
The concept of stress management has attracted most of the researchers' attention in recent years. Over the past years, there has been a growing recognition of job stress as an important occupational health problem. In industry, there is a heightened awareness that occupational stress contributes to a significant portion of worker compensation claims, health-care costs, disability, absenteeism, and productivity losses. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the key drivers of work place stress for Nursing officers in the private health sector in Srilanka. For this purpose, the 49 nursing employees, who work in the private hospitals in Batticaloa district in SriLanka were selected as sample using simple random sampling technique. A quantitative approach was used in this study. A structured questionnaire along with other secondary sources were used to collect data. A research model and five hypotheses were developed. The independent variables were role conflict, relationship with others, workload pressure, homework interface, role ambiguity. The dependent variable was job stress. In order to measure the relationship between variables, correlation and multiple regression were applied to the findings. Findings showed that all the variables taken for the study were significantly associated with job stress of nurses who work in private hospitals in SriLanka. However, work overload was found to be the most significant factor of job stress in the selected sector. This study indicates and highlights the intensity of those factors that are involved to create a stress environment in the organization. So, this study suggests that an effective means of controlling the occupational stress must be developed.
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