One of the main areas in which HRD interventions are needed relate to organizational role stresses. An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the stresses of the top management executives and to suggest HRD interventions accordingly. The sample consists of 221 Top Managers....

There is considerable amount of research on the problem of stress specially the stresses faced and experienced by executives. Psychologists, physiologist and management experts have all directed their attention to this critical area. It is, however, interesting to find that Indian scriptures...

In the present study, attempt is made to explore the types of role stresses experienced by top and middle management personnel and to establish the degree of relationship among these role stress variables. ‘ORS Scale’ developed and standardized by Pareek (1983) was administered on a sample...

An attempt is made to study how far working women enjoy freedom to take investment related decisions on their own and the pattern of investments in the male dominated investment world in India. The questions related to investment pattern and its decision maker with respect to working women was...

The paper deals with the nature of the stress process and its linkage with negative outcomes for the individual as also the organisation. Special emphasis has been placed on the organisation related role stresses and the ‘functional’ and ‘dysfunctional’ strategies used for dealing with...

A sample of 196 branch managers from public sector banks in India was selected to study the relationship of managerial effectiveness with motivational climate and leadership effectiveness. Self-ratings by managers and subordinates ratings of their managers’ effectiveness did not differ...

The present study investigates the relationships between organizational role stress and job burnout among university teachers. The sample consisted of (N=300) university teachers, which has been classified into three groups of 100 each. The results of the study indicate that organizational role...

Present study is an attempt to explore the interrelationship between job satisfaction areas and different factors of role stresses in EDP managers and system analysts from Public and Private computer orgnaisations. ‘ORS Scale’ and “Job Satisfaction Inventory’ were administered. The...

Learned Helplessness is a cognitive state of being which believes that whatever it does is not going to alter the outcome of an event. In the other words, it comes to believe in response-outcome-non-contingency. Role efficacy can be seen as the psychological factor underlying role effectiveness,...

A developing country like India cannot afford to neglect the problem of the people who contribute to its economic growth. Men work to satisfy their needs, and the extent of need satisfaction or need frustration is reflected in their behaviour. So the study of human behaviour is very essential in...