A Comparative Study of Job Stress of Employees in Indian Banking Industry

Stress is an inevitable consequence of recent living. Organizational structure represented by hierarchical relationship of various levels, lack of cooperative among different levels lead to work stress. The objective of the study is to identify the factors causing stress among the employees and to study the impact of stress on performance of employees between public and private sector. The primary data for this research paper was collected through survey method using a well-structured questionnaire. . There are total sample of 200 respondents from both public and private sector banks. The sampling area for this study was District Fatehgarh Sahib and the branches with the district where from area as Amloh, Fatehgarh Sahib, Sarhind, Sonti. Descriptive statistics were used to obtain the mean and standard deviations. t-test is used. The results show that the major factors that causes stress is long working hours and unhealthy office politics. These factors are responsible for causing stress among employees. It is suggested that the companies reduce the working hours or give employees such an environment during there working hours so that they feel refreshed the companies may arrange small stress free or yoga classes from time to time. The bosses should ensure a rational working environment and try to minimize the office politics.