A Relationship Between Occupational Stress and Organisational Commitment of I.T Sector's Employees in Contrasting economies

Adnan Haque and Aston John

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Abstract: Aim is to examine the relationship between occupational stress and organisational commitment of employees at middle and operational level. Additionally, the occupational therapists role is examined through self-developed ‘stress model’ containing perceived job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and distinctive stressors. Using purposive, snowball and convenience sampling 825 responses (403 from UK and 422 from Pakistan) gathered through on-line matrix based survey questionnaire to gain quantitative perspective. Findings showed female workers are less stress than male workers. Due to low social support, non-managerial employees are vulnerable to stress than their counterpart managerial position employees. Furthermore, Pakistani workforce experience greater stress than UK workforce does. Moreover, personal factors stressed females while organisational factors affect males. Personality often hinders females' organisational commitment while role demand and organisational leadership mainly affect male employees in both countries. Females use support more often than males for overcoming stress. Managerial position males have higher affective commitment whereas managerial level females have high normative commitment and continuance commitment. Although, degree of stress is higher in Pakistan comparing to UK but causes and effects are not significantly different.

Keywords: occupational stress; occupational therapists; organisational commitment; contrasting economies; layers of management; social support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C0 I0 I3 M0 M1 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08-31, Revised 2016-11-30
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Published in Polish Journal of Management Studies 1.14(2016): pp. 95-105

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Journal Article: A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT OF IT SECTOR'S EMPLOYEES IN CONTRASTING ECONOMIES (2016)
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