An empirical study on the organisational role stress among scientists of Tamil Nadu veterinary and animal sciences university

Abstract

The present study was conducted to understand and measure the organizational Role Stress (ORS) among the scientists of TANUVAS. The study also measures the overall level of organisational role stress among the scientists involved in teaching, research and extension and also ranks the ten components of Organisational Role Stress. The study was conducted among 200 scientists of TANUVAS selected from various constituent units based on proportionate sampling. The data generated was tabulated and rank order calculated using Cronbach’s Alpha test. It was found that the scientists of TANUVAS had low level of organizational role stress. The maximum contribution to Organisational Role Stress is of Inter-role distance (IRD) followed by role isolation (RI) and role stagnation (RS).