International Journal of Management, IT and Engineering
Year : 2017, Volume : 7, Issue : 2
First page : ( 127) Last page : ( 142)
Online ISSN : 2249-0558.

A study on work and job pressure at the workplace: leading to ill health among professionals

Dr. Vijayashree L*, Jain Deepali**

*Professor & Head-MBA, BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore

**Research Scholar, BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore

Online published on 12 May, 2017.

Abstract

The main aim for writing the paper is to find out the relationship between job pressure and the ill health among the employees. In the today's competitive world each and every person is dealing with the work overload and the job is like a pressure for them due to the work life imbalance. All the employees have one and the other type of pressure due to various reasons. The pressure due to job among employees is not a matter of negligence. Job pressure leads to the ill health. The employees are facing the mental illness and physical illness due to job pressure. The main hypothesis for the research paper is that there is a relationship between the job pressure and the mental and physical illness. The OSI questionnaire developed by Cooper et al was used to collect the data. The data was collected from 79 professionals. Data was analysed by means, descriptive and correlation using SPSS software.

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Keywords

Source of job pressure Stress, Physical illness, Mental illness.

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