Employee's Coping with Occupational Hazard : A Study in Educational Sector

The purpose of this paper is to explore the coping strategies of the people who are into teaching profession, in dealing with the hazards they face in their occupation and to determine the possible contributing factors of these strategies for escalation or de-escalation of hazardous process. The research method that is used to identify the hazards and also the factors influencing the coping strategies are mixed in nature i.e is both qualitative and quantitative research. The factors are identified using the qualitative content analysis method on secondary data and written narratives of in-depth interviews taken. Based on the conceptual framework that is obtained from qualitative data hypothesis is formulated. Based on these hypothesis questionnaire is designed and data is collected from the respondents. The hypothesis is then tested using various statistical tests. Three main concepts have been identified which influences the coping strategies. They are Personality traits of Teachers, Stakeholder Complexity and Task Complexity. On analyzing these concepts it was found, that the personality traits and the task complexity has significant impact on the coping strategies. Whereas, the stakeholder complexity escalates the hazards of teaching occupation