A STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE STRESSES AMONG GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS

T is beyond doubt that timing of school principals, political pressure, soci al pressure, management pressure, coordination between teaching and non - teaching members, change of attitude of students and community towards teachers has increased the level of stress among school principals. Every day we talk of improving quality of edu cation. All these indicate the stress and strain among principals and leads to serious health consequences. 200 private and government school principals selected through stratified random sampling from Haryana were administered organization role stress sca le (Pareek, 1983). Comparison between private and government school principals was worked on its 10 dimensions by applying t - test. The results revealed that private school principal experienced higher organization role stress in the dimensions of inter - rol e distance, role stagnation, role isolation, personal inadequacy self role distance, role ambiguity and resource inadequacy than their counterpart. The results were discussed in view of changing global education system. Finding indicates that there is a ne ed of periodic assessment of these stresses on the principals and to evolve the education system which reduces stress among the principals