Managing stress in banking professionals: A study in nationalised bank Chowdhury Manas Ranjan1,*, Assistant Professor, Mangaraj Sujata2, Chairperson 1Department of Computer Science, Trident Academy of Technology, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar-751024, Odisha, India 2International Foundation for Research and Innovation (IFRI) and Director cum Dean (Academics) Bhavan Center for Communication and Management (BCCM), Kharavel Nagar, Unit III, Bhubaneswar-7510001, Odisha, India *Corresponding author e-mail id: manas.901@gmail.com
Abstract 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. It is found that maximum number of employees in banks remains in stress. Majority of the employees try to find solution to relieve them from stress. Also, the measures are also suggested in the paper to overcome stress that affects their physical and mental health. Top Keywords Workplace stress, Social life, Health, Satisfaction, Conflict, Bank, Competitive. Top |