STRESSORS ON WORK PLACE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON JOB COMMITMENT AMONG THE VETERINARIANS OF KERALA

The present study was done in 200 veterinarians in Animal Husbandry Department of Kerala. A questionnaire technique was adopted for the study. Majority of the respondents were in the age group of 31-40 years and 64 per cent were male. Job satisfaction, organizational role stress, working condition, organizational structure, organizational policy, inter personal relations, communication, team work, security, target and autonomy were selected as stressors for the study. The result of the study revealed that majority of the respondents had medium level of stress due to various stressors on the work place. Organizational role stress, communication, work condition, structure, team work and security had negative and high significant correlation with job commitment while stress due to target and policy had positive correlation. It also shows that job disatisfaction was perceived as the most important cause of stress on the work place.