Occupational Stress in Banking Sector of India

Abstract

In today’s era, there has been heightened awareness
that job stress contributes to a significant portion of worker
compensation claims, health-care cost, disability, absenteeism
and productivity loss. Chair stress is a significant and costly
problem, and that the challenge for all banks to manage work
stress in order to reduce health-care cost and improves
productivity. The important role of occupational health has long
been highlighted by world health organization. Work plays a
central role in the lives of many people and thus the impact of job
stress is an important issue both for individual employees and the
organization for which they work. Although the mechanisms
through which the work can cause or contribute to illness are
complex, there is a strong evidence to indicate that stress
experienced at work can have adverse outcomes for the well
being of individual employees. Similarly, this paper analyzes the
major causes of stress to the employee of different gender and
age group in the Indian banking. It also determines the various
strategies followed by the employees to remove their stress. The
study is based on the primary data and the likert scale is used to
measure the response of the employees.