A Study on Occupational Stress among the Female Employees of Southern Railway – with Special Reference to Madurai Division

Abstract

Indian railway is one of the income creatingindustries in India. The industry is atriumph on account of its productive staff. They are important resources of theindustry and the way to progress. The women employees in the Indian railway areencountering a tremendous measure of weight at the work place. Expandedworkloads, extra time, antagonistic work environment and move work are only acouple of reasons for stressful working conditions. In such a circumstance it isimportant to study the occupational stress of railway employees supposing that notcontrolled, it can influence the individual's family or social life, health,performance and so on subsequently in the study an endeavor has been made todiscover the major sources and reasons for stress and accumulate knowledge aboutthe methods to bringdown stress. The stress is consuming issue in present daysociety. The impact of stress is a deviation from the current physical andpsychological state of human life. The stress is viewed as an unavoidable result ofemployee usefulness. The occupationalstress antagonistically influences the healthand performance of the employees of an organization. Stress destructively impactsthe human lives, including workers. Hence, the present study has been focused toaddress the occupational stress among the female employees of Southern Railwaywith special reference to Madurai division and the study based on both primary andsecondary sources of data collections.