STUDY ON THE CAUSES OF STRESS AMONG THE EMPLOYEES IN IT SECTOR AND ITS EFFECT ON THE EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE AT THE WORKPLACE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, HYDERABAD: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The reported study focuses on the wide spread silent issue the “Stress” and throws a light on a comparative analysis of causes of stress among the employees and its effect on the employee performance at the workplace in International Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and Information Technology Sector (ITS), and determine the level of differences if any, among both the areas employees. A survey of 150 employees each of the IARI and ITS respectively carried out to assess the twelve independent variables and its effect on employees' performance, the dependent variable. The descriptive analysis, correlation techniques and parametric statistics like t-test and Ftests carried out to arrive at the conclusions. To measure the reliability of the scale used for this research, and internal consistencies of the survey questionnaire, the reliability static Cronbach's alpha (C-alpha) is used. The C-alpha values for all the variables ranged from 0.60 to 0.70 for IARI, from 0.70 to 0.80 for ITS, whereas the overall C-alpha values are, 0.74 and 0.84 for IARI and ITS respectively. The study concluded that the impact ofoccupational stress on performance for the IARI Employees is moderate and when compared with the ITS, which reported higher impact on its performance than IARI. The results indicate that the job related stress in general and the stress factor job security in particular effects the employee performance in IT sector. Health-wise, some employees had developed chronic neck and back pain, an effect of long sitting hours at work. The study was conducted in Metro city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India