Impact of Occupational Stress on Job Engagement among Working Women in Andhra Pradesh

Abstract

Stress at the workplace has been a significant issue in contemporary organizational environments, which has greatly impacted on the quality of employee performance and psychological performance. The current research will focus on how workload stress, role conflict stress, work environment stress, and interpersonal relationship stress influence job engagement among the employees. The study a quantitative and descriptive-analytical research design was used by the study. The tool that was used in gathering primary data was a structured questionnaire with 200 respondents and a five-point Likert scale of strongly disagree to strongly agree. The internal consistency was ensured by the value of Cronbach alpha of more than 0.70 indicating the reliability of the instrument. The analysis was done using SPSS where descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression analysis were applied.

The results indicated that job engagement was significantly affected by all the four dimensions of workplace stress. The findings showed that there was a significant negative correlation between stress at work and job engagement of employees. Of all the independent variables, role conflict stress stood out as the best predictor of lower job engagement, then interpersonal relationship stress, workload stress and work environment stress. The regression findings indicated that all the stress factors had significant contributions towards the differences in job engagement at the 5 percent level of significance. All the variable effect sizes were large, which means that they have a great practical value.

The paper comes to the conclusion that the reduction of stress in the workplace can help enhance the job engagement of employees and organizational productivity. The results can be of great importance to organizational leaders, policymakers, and human resource managers in order to create effective stress management mechanisms, create conducive working conditions, and increase the level of employee engagement.