OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND JOB SATISFACTION: A STUDY OF AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IN INDIA

Work stress plays a key role in determining the level of job satisfaction of employees across the industries. Previous research shows that stress is an outcome of various factors like pressure from seniors, gender and age differences, continuous working with machines, working conditions, unfavorable environment, nature of work and salary. In recent years, employees in most of the industries experience tremendous stress and do not feel comfortable with their nature of job. Many a studies have been undertaken to investigate the role of stress in job satisfaction of the employees. This paper examines the relationship between work stress and job satisfaction amongst the engineers in automotive industry in India. A structured questionnaire was used on a sample of 190 engineers. The results revealed that some of the demographic variables were responsible for stress which showed a decline in the level of job satisfaction. The results also showed that the engineers who reported greater stress were less satisfied with their job and found to have low level of job commitment and more likely to leave their jobs and less likely to adjust to the work environment.