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Volume : II, Issue : VII, August - 2012

Development of Scale for Measurement of Stress and Performance Status of Public and Private Sector Bank Employees

Sunita.G.Rao and Sunita Borkar

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

In the modern world of 21st century “stress” is termed as the “disease of century” as it is believed to cause more ailments than anything known to modern medicine. Stress in occupation is a condition or feeling experienced when employee perceives that “demands placed on him exceeds the personal and social resources he is able to mobilize”. He has a feeling of losing control over events, which is stressful. Banking industry today is amongst ten most stressful industries, as per ASSOCHEM. Hence present study was undertaken with an objective to develop questionnaire for measuring stress and performance status of employees of public and private sector banks. As the questionnaire was found to be reliable and valid tool, the developed questionnaire served as a scientific tool for measurement of stress and performance status of bank employees.

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Sunita.G.Rao and Sunita Borkar, (2012). Development of Scale for Measurement of Stress and Performance Status of Public and Private Sector Bank Employees. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1240.pdf

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