TRENDS OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AMONG PRINCIPALS: A STUDY

The role of the principal continues to expand and change with rapidly changing higher educational scenario thus they can be prone to occupational stress. Paper aims to study the level of occupational stress among the principals across faculties. For this normative survey method is used and the area covered is Maharashtra state in India. The sample of 245 college principals from different faculties is collected randomly using Occupational Stress Index by A. K. Srivastava and A. P. Singh. Data are analyzed using statistical measures. The results showed that the principals of law faculty exhibit more occupational stress whereas the principals of pharmacy faculty indicated lessor level of occupational stress. The stressors identified are role over – load, role conflict, group and political pressures, under participation, poor peer relations, strenuous working conditions and intrinsic impoverishment.