A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ORS AMONG THE AGE GROUP OF WOMEN’S WORKING IN SELECTIVE SERVICES

Introduction: Stress as we all know, has become an important feature of our day to day lives. For the last few decades, research around stress has produced a large number of conferences, books, and articles, however despite the popularity of “stress” as a research topic, experts still do not agree on a common definition of this simple and at the same time controversial concept (Rees and Redfern, 2000). Statement of the Problem: Stress is an ordinary segment of life. The work lives of working women in service sector are not easy; in fact, they are in the eye of the storm. This study has focused on evaluating the difference between the two groups of employees. Eight stress factors were identified by Pareek (1983) among working women. These factors, namely Inter Role Distance (IRD), Role Stagnation (RS), Role Expectation Conflict (REC), Role Erosion (RE), Role Overload (RO), Personal Inadequacy (PI), Self-Role Distance (SRD) and Role Ambiguity (RA) were used in this study to distinguish the opinion of academicians and corporate employees. Research Objectives:  To find out the ORS among working women of academic & corporate sector.  To make a comparative analysis and its impact of ORS among corporate & academic sector. Findings: A significant difference between the different age group was found for Self-role distance,Inter-role distance, Role stagnation, Role expectation conflict, Role ambiguity, Role overload, Role Erosion, Role (personal) inadequacy factors of organisational stress. Keywords: ORS, Working women, Stress.