Non Workplace Stress

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Srivastava and Singh (1981) identified twelve factors which caused occupational stress such as Role overload, Role ambiguity, Role conflict, group pressures, low profitability, under participation, low status, responsibility for people, intrinsic impoverishment, strenuous work, poor peer relations and powerlessness.

Non Work Stresses
Besides the stressors prevailing in work setting, a number of non-work or off the job factors are the indirect sources of occupational stress. Models of work and non work stress (Bhagat et al. 1985) posed that "the total amount of stress and strain experienced by a person is a function of both work and no-work stresses". Non work domain includes family, leisure or recreational, community, social or religious roles.
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The stress experienced by a member of faculty in one management institute may be higher than that of someone in another management institute. There are differences in stress levels experienced by faculty members in their jobs both from work and non work activities.
However, despite the inclusion of non work factors as potential stressors, only a few empirical studies have investigated the relationship of non work stressors with job stressors (Cooper and Marshall 1976, 1978; Ivancevich and Matteson, 1980).
Researchers have noted that "life stresses were associated with decreased satisfaction and increased job stress, job alienation and turn over". (Bhagat et al., 1985 and Sarason and Johnson 1979).
Hendrix et al. (1985), found that family relationship had indirect effect on job stress through their impact on life stress. Crouter (1984) noted in a study that female employees with young children experienced negative spill over from family responsibility to work by way of tiredness, absenteeism, inefficiency and inability to accept new responsibilities at
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There are two such systems namely: the primary system, such as family and religious, regional and linguistic groups; and the secondary system which includes neighborhood, schools, Colleges, technical institutes and work organizations. Pestonjee stated that "As the functional requirements and role expectations from both these systems differ, the demands made on the individual in one system have their effects on his / her performance in the other. More over resources from one system also should be invested in the other system to take care of the problems arising in it".
The review regarding stress and theoretical background revealed that various authors have pointed out the four variants of stress namely Eustress, Distress, Hyperstress and Hypostress. The three models of stress namely stimulus based response based and systems models of stress seem relevant to the present study. The effects of stress are the manifestations of stress such as physiological, psychological and behavioural. Even though stress-effects have become major concerns of psychological, medical and management investigators, the potential of understanding stress in teaching professionals has yet not been

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