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Association among Occupational Stress factors and Performance at workplace among Agricultural Research Sector Employees at Hyderabad, India

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Title Association among Occupational Stress factors and Performance at workplace among Agricultural Research Sector Employees at
Hyderabad, India
 
Creator Prasad, K D V
Vaidya, R
Anil Kumar, V
 
Subject Agricultural Research
 
Description This study reports the results on the association among occupational
stress factors and employee performance at workplace using a survey
of 756 employees of agricultural research sector in Hyderabad Metro,
India. The seven independent occupational stress causing factors shift
work, working hours, high on job demand, lack of job control, social
support, job insecurity, lack of salary rewards and the dependent
variable employee performance measured. The data collected using
the structured self-reported and undisguised questionnaire on
agricultural research sector employees working in and around
Hyderabad Metro. Using the questionnaire data was collected on
general characteristics, health related issues using dichotomous
variables and job characteristics – that is occupational stress factors
using statements measured on a 5-point likert type scale. The chisquare
test and multivariate logistic regression analysis were applied to
measure to observe if any statistically significant association among
the seven occupational stress factors and employee performance. The
reliability of the scale used for the study and internal consistencies of
the study instrument were measured using the reliability statistic
Cronbach’s alpha (C-Alpha). The overall C-Alpha value for the
measured at Men 0.83 and for women 0.79 and for all eight factors the
C-alpha values ranged from 0.67 to 0.83 for Men and from 0.64 to 0.86
for Women. The results suggested that there was a statistically
significant association between occupational stress factors like
working hours/week (51-60 hrs, OR=1.41, 95% CI 1.09-1.71, p60 hrs/week, OR=1.94, 95% CI 1.65-2.44, p
 
Date 2018-01
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11003/1/Association-among-Occupational-Stress-factors-and-Performance-at-workplace-among-Agricultural-Research-Sector-Employees-at-Hyderabad-India.pdf
Prasad, K D V and Vaidya, R and Anil Kumar, V (2018) Association among Occupational Stress factors and Performance at workplace among Agricultural Research Sector Employees at Hyderabad, India. Pacific Business Review International (TSI), 10 (7). pp. 27-36. ISSN 1927-0321