06Feb 2018

LEVEL OF EDUCATION EFFECTS ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE STRESS AMONGST DUAL CAREER COUPLES.

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The present paper aims to know the various dimensions of the Organisational Role stress and to find out education based difference in stress level of employees. In the present study a sample of 180 employees were selected from different industries. The present paper successfully highlighted few aspects of the Role Stress among employees. Employees having highest qualification facing maximum organizational role stress. Second most stressed group is employees belonging to Post Graduate and least stressed employees are in the category of senior secondary or lower educational qualification. Highly qualified employees experiences higher level of stress than having lower qualification.


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[Deepak Kumar. (2018); LEVEL OF EDUCATION EFFECTS ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE STRESS AMONGST DUAL CAREER COUPLES. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 6 (Feb). 532-536] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


DEEPAK KUMAR
Assistant Professor, JCD Institute of Business Management, SIRSA

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/6467      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/6467