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Effect of Cyclic Meditation on Job Stress Levels of Indian IT Professionals

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Title Effect of Cyclic Meditation on Job Stress Levels of Indian IT Professionals
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Contributor Sony Kumari and Akhilesh K.B.
 
Subject Cyclic Meditation
IT Professionals
Job Stress Levels
Yoga
 
Description Over the last two decades, Information Technology (IT) based industry in India has
newlinetransitioned from million dollar industry to billion dollar industry. This industry grew from
newlineUSD 100 million in the financial year 1992 to USD 108 billion in the year 2013 as per
newlineNASSCOM 2013 annual report. Over 100 million English speaking population, computer
newlineawareness to students in early college times, favorable government policies and low cost
newlinegeographical advantage, are some of the reasons for this growth. Majority of revenues for
newlineIndian economy in private sector are driven by IT sector as per NASSCOM 2014 annual
newlinereport. As most of Indian IT professionals work for IT based global service providers, they
newlineneed to tune to the customer demands in meeting aggressive targets as well as to adjust to the
newlinecustomer country time zones. One cannot ignore short-term contract nature of IT job,
newlinecausing Job Anxiety for Indian IT professionals. Due to the characteristics of job performed
newlineby IT professionals , they are often getting victims of Job stress conditions. Job Anxiety is a
newlinemajor component in driving the Job stress for Indian IT professionals. This has taken a huge
newlinetoll on the physical and mental health levels of IT professionals. Acid peptic diseases,
newlineexcessive alcoholism, asthma, diabetes, tension head-ache and hypertension are some of the
newlinediseases experienced by IT professionals. In a cross-sectional study performed on 1071
newlineprofessionals on IT and ITES professionals working in Bangalore, alarming facts were found:
newline31% of IT/ITES professionals are hypertensive with approximately 5% having malignant
newlinelevels of hypertension (Giridhara babu et. al, 2013). This study further suggests that
newlinehypertension in IT/ITES professionals occurs a decade earlier compared to the rest of India
newlineand two decades earlier compared to developed countries.
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Date 2018-10-12T08:54:35Z
2018-10-12T08:54:35Z
PhD/Cat2/11/Aug11
2015
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Type Ph.D.
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10603/218475
 
Language English
 
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Rights university
 
Format 223p.
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Publisher Bangalore
Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Sansthana
Department of Yoga and Life Sciences
 
Source University