Work Experience and Occupational Stress: Among Women Employees

The impact of work experience on occupational stress among women employees in Bangalore

Abstract

Experience plays an important role in work. Experiential learning or knowledge improves the job which we do, to perform it even better and also reduces the time required. In all jobs some extent of stress is experienced, and it’s a wide spread phenomenon. The job stress is considered as having the harmful physical and emotional response. Stress has a cost for individual in terms of Health and Wellbeing for organization in terms of, poorly motivated, less productive and less safe at work, absenteeism, labor turnover, low production etc. Employees are prone to develop a lot of health problems due to continuous physical and mental stress of their work place. Experience tends to reduce the work stress, since the employee knows or have mastered the skills required to perform that particular work. Keeping above points in the view a study was conducted on 300 women employees working in Bangalore. Sample consists of 100 women working in MNC’S, 100 women working in government and of 100 women working in private organizations. Their occupational stress was assessed by administering occupational stress index developed by A. K. Srivastava and A. P. Singh. Their personal stress was assessed using Singh’s personal stress source inventory developed by Arun Kumar Singh. A Suitable stastical technique was used to analyze the obtained results