IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cub/journl/v19y2016i2p44-55.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Tracing stress symptoms: an empirical study of manufacturing industry

Author

Listed:
  • Irbha Magotra

    (Fairfield institute of management and Technology, New Delhi, India)

Abstract

The present study aimed to get an insight into the kind of symptoms of work stress experienced by employees in middle level management of the manufacturing industry. A sample of 103 middle level employees from manufacturing organizations of Jammu region (India) has been utilized in the study. The results uncover eleven indicators of stress, namely, paranoid behaviour, physical reactions, personal habits, lack of quality sleep, emotional volatility, receptive instability, sleep turmoil, fatigue syndrome, emotional detachment, diet and anxiety indicators and work syndrome. The study suggested that these indicators can be used as screening kit for the purpose of identification of stress among the employees whose overlook can push the employees towards the trench of stress.

Suggested Citation

  • Irbha Magotra, 2016. "Tracing stress symptoms: an empirical study of manufacturing industry," Journal of Human Resource Management, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Management, vol. 19(2), pages 44-55.
    • Handle: RePEc:cub:journl:v:19:y:2016:i:2:p:44-55
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.jhrm.eu/2016/12/44-tracing-stress-symptoms-an-empirical-study-of-manufacturing-industry/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    stress; symptoms; factor analysis; manufacturing;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
    • J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cub:journl:v:19:y:2016:i:2:p:44-55. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Anna Lasakova (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fmkomsk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.