Organizational Role Stress and Job Satisfaction among Doctors, Engineers and Human Resource Women Professionals of Various Organizations

Abstract

Organizational Role Stress (ORS) is experienced when the person feels stressed from the responsibilities in managing personal life with professional. The feeling of dissatisfaction occurs when the person experiences a mismatch between their expectations and job performance outcomes. In today's scenario with increased intense competition among workforce, large number of people are competing for limited job opportunities; they work amidst challenges as getting fired, stagnation from routine job and delivering high level of performance. The present study aims to find out the effect of ORS and Job Satisfaction on Doctors, Engineers and Human Resource women professionals. Organizational Role Stress Scale (Pareek, 1983), job Satisfaction Inventory (Pestonjee, 1978) were used as tools. Total 180 samples of professional women were selected from purposive sampling method from various organizations of Ahmedabad and further divided as per experience: below 5 years and above ten years. Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS, 3x2 ANOVA. The findings showed that out of ten role stressors for ORS; significant differences were found in RE, PI, RA, RIn. For women with less than 5 years of work experience REe, RE, PI, RA, RIn proved to be significant. For women with more than 10 years of work experience Significant differences were found in all parameters except IRD. This showed that they face it difficult to maintain balance between their personal and professional life and continuously experience role stress. Among the four dimensions calculated for the job Satisfaction Inventory, significant differences were found in job, Management, Social Relations, and Personal Adjustment.