Study the status of job stress and work-related stressors among the employees of a Spinning industry
Journal of Health in the Field,
,
10 February 2017
Abstract
Background and Aims: Job stress is one of the most important professional issues that poses high costs on organizations. It may result in reducing efficiency, feeling fatigue, which subsequently leads to employee dissatisfaction in him/her workplace. This study was designed to assess the employees’ job stress in a Spinningindustry.
Materials and Methods: The present cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was performed on 230 workers at a spinning industry. The standard job stress questionnaire of England HSE Institute was used to determine job stress. The employees were requested permission and their answers were treated as strictly confidential. The obtained data were analyzed by SPSS (version19), using descriptive statistics and Spearman & Pearson correlation coefficient, independent t-test, Kruskal-Wallis, ANOVA and Mann-Whitney Tests.
Results: Statistically meaningful relationship (p >0.05) was observed between job stress and education level, the more education the less job stress. Age factors and working units indeed showed a similar relationship. There was only limited and not statistically significant (p>0.05) evidence for an increased job stress and sex, marital status, as well as job experience. The current study further found that the different job opportunities have high stress for 29.2 % employees, average stress for 69.5% employees and low stress for 1.3%.
Conclusion: Considering the harmful physical and emotional responses of job stress, managing and controlling¬ of work-related stressors is recommended. This may worked out through identifying resources to significantly reduce the stress level and increase productivity in the workplace.
Key words: Job Stress, Questionnaire, HSE, Mental Health, Spinning Industry Employees
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