Stress Management: A Study on Employees of Banking Sector of Odisha

Abstract

Stress is often termed as 20th century syndrome born out of man's race toward modern progress and its ensuring complexities. Banking, like other services, has become one of the highly competitive sectors in India. The banking organisations, since the beginning of this decade, have been facing greater challenges in terms of technological revolution, service diversification and global banking. Stress is unavoidable on the part of the employees as the systems, procedures; techniques are getting complicated with the use of advance technology. Every employee cannot cope with such rapid changes taking place in the jobs. This will lead to arising of stress among employees. An attempt has been made through this research paper to know the reasons of stress among the bank employees and the ways used by employees to cope with the stress generated at workplace. In this paper, Cronbach's Alpha has been used to test the reliability of the questionnaire undertaken for the study and z-test has used to test the hypothesis.