Occupational Stress and Combating Mechanisms amidst Software Professionals in South India

  • Dr. M. Beulah Viji Christiana

Abstract

Software industry which is found to be continuously expanding in India is supposed to be a leading destination for the IT and IT-enabled services worldwide. The interest of students and professionals in India is highly inclined towards Software jobs and emerging technologies. Stress has become highly inevitable in this fast changing world and it is almost found to be present in almost all occupation. Occupational stress today is of great concern especially among software professionals mainly because of the challenging assignments they undertake, deadlines to meet the target, future uncertainty and frequent performance appraisals etc. which in turn has resulted in psychological and physiological disorders, increased turnover and reduced productivity. The study mainly emphasizes on the influence of various stressors in creating stress among software professionals, consequences and combating mechanisms they adopt to overcome the same. The study is confined to software professionals in South India alone as more than 70% of the software companies are found here. The research design chosen for the study is descriptive. The sampling method that is adopted for this study is convenience sampling which is a non-probability sampling technique and the sample size is restricted to 280. Data collected were both primary and secondary in nature. Both Descriptive and Inferential statistics were used for analysis. Data were analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Various Stressors are supposed to have a significant impact on the software professionals. Software professionals resort to various combating mechanisms to overcome stress and its relative consequences  whose effectiveness need to be improved to alleviate the same.

Published
2020-06-06
How to Cite
Dr. M. Beulah Viji Christiana. (2020). Occupational Stress and Combating Mechanisms amidst Software Professionals in South India . International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 29(04), 8761 -. Retrieved from http://sersc.org/journals/index.php/IJAST/article/view/30633