Job Stress in Information Technology Sector - the Cause and Effect Analysis

TLDR: In this paper, the authors focused on the cause and effect analysis of job stress in IT sector and found that most of the IT sector employees are experiencing extra organizational, organizational, group and individual problems.

Abstract: In today's changing work environment stress level is increasing and is encompassing everyone. Prolonged stress not effectively managed causing various physical, physiological and psychosomatic diseases that are affecting the health and productivity of an individual and also functioning of an organization. The present research paper is devoted to cause and effect analysis of job stress in IT sector. The sample included 80 IT sector employees from Pune based IT companies. Primary data was collected with the help of a questionnaire consisting 29 questions relating to various sources and consequences of job stress. Results indicated that most of the IT sector employees are undergoing some or other kind of job stress due to extra organizational, organizational, group and individual problems. Some of them are found to be trouble inviters; achievement oriented and having overexpectations from their work. Most of the IT employees are facing more than one symptoms of the stress at a time, and their multiple effects on their health and on their family and on their organization. To avoid stressful conditions, change it or learn to cope with it, knowledge about stress, physiological fitness, time management, assertiveness, readjusting life goals, relaxation is necessary. It is suggested that the management should come forward and promote various activities for reducing stress level of their employees.