Impact of Stress, Psychological Distress and Organizational Commitment on Business Education Teacher’s Productivity

Aim The changing technology, economic conditions and global competition have made the role of management education crucial for the success of individuals and the industry. The business educators are increasingly concerned with preparing the students for the competitive market. Stress negatively affects the varied efforts of business educators to produce talented workforce. The main objective of the study was to explore the effects of stress and psychological distress on the productivity of business teachers. Methods A deductive approach was adopted for framing the hypotheses and a structured questionnaire was used for collecting data. The research participants were business educators n=408 working in Karnataka, India. SPSS AMOS was adopted to fit a structure equation model on the data collected and study the structural relationships among the variables. Results The findings revealed that the stress and psychological distress experienced by business educators significantly and negatively affected their productivity teaching productivity, research productivity and student outcomes . However, the organizational commitment of the teachers enhanced their productivity. Implications Based on the results, it is implied that business education administrators must take efforts and develop strategies to help business teachers cope with stress in order to achieve academic outcomes. Bharathi A | Dr. H. Prakash "Impact of Stress, Psychological Distress and Organizational Commitment on Business Education Teacher's Productivity" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-1 , December 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38093.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/hrm-and-retail-business/38093/impact-of-stress-psychological-distress-and-organizational-commitment-on-business-education-teacher's-productivity/bharathi-a