project report on organisation role stress

1. A STUDY ON EXAMINATION OF ORGANISATION ROLE
STRESS AND THEIR COPING SRATERGIES WITH SPECIAL
REFERENCE TO COCHIN PORT TRUST
Presented by:
Sneha Joy

2. COCHIN PORT TRUST
• Cochin Port is a major port on the Arabian Sea-Indian
Ocean sea-route and is one of the largest ports in
India.
• Body of government of India that manages the port
of Kochi
• One among the 13 Major Ports in India
• The International Container Transshipment Terminal
(ICTT), part of the Cochin Port, is the largest
container transshipment facility in India.

3. • Major import items
Crude oil, food grains, fertilizers, coal, raw
cashew nuts, machinery, hardware, newsprint, zinc
concentrate, bauxite, iron and steal
• Major export items are
Tea, coffee, marine products, spices, cashew kernels,
coir products, chemicals, illuminate sand, electrical
spares

4. ROLE STRESS
• The stress experienced by the person because of
their role (job) in a social system.
• They assume a role based on the expectation of the
self and others at work place

5. COPING MECHANISM
• Behavioral coping
• Cognitive coping
• Problem forward coping
• Emotion focused coping

6. LITERATURE REVIEW
• Ismail, Suhaimi, Bakar, Alam (2013) investigated the influence
of supervisor’s social support in the correlation between job
stress and work intrusion on family conflict.
• Wincent, Ortquist (2009) investigated on the advance role
stress theory .
• Aziz, Mohsin (2004) investigated on the organizational stress in
IT professionals and the findings establish that the women
professionals are experiencing organizational role stress due to
role overload.
• Sagar, Shahare (2004), investigated on role stress in private
sector and findings reveal that it occurs as a result of position
one occupies in his/her personal and professional life.
• Chiu, Yeh (2012) investigated on the relationships among role
stressors, social support, and employee deviance.

7. • Ackfeldt , Malhotra(2012), investigated on the moderating
influences of empowerment and professional development on
role stress-commitment relationships, while examining and
confirming the effects of role stress on organisational
commitment.
• Periz (2011), investigated on the organizational stress level of
women employees.
• Mayya, Joshi (2014), investigated on the intensity of
organizational role stress among women managers of Indian
hospitality industry.
• Gahlan(2014) investigated on the stress and job satisfaction
among IT Professional.
• Duygulua , Ciraklara ,Guripekb , Bagiranb(2010) explored
whether there is an effect of role stress on the employees`
occupational well-being.

8. PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
• Stress is a psychological reaction to certain
threatening environment and is caused by events in
the work environment.
• Coping mechanism helps in reducing or minimizing
the harmful consequences of stress which results
from the potential stressor.

9. PROBLEM FORMULATION
CONTROLLABLE VARIABLE
• Training and development
• Workload
• Social support
• Adequate leadership
• Adequate facilities
• Role overload
• Role ambiguity
• Role conflict
• Work intrusion
UNCONTROLLABLE VARIABLE
• Employee commitment
• Health issues
• Family problem
• Role expectation

10. PROBLEM SPECIFICATION
Relationship between Controllable and Uncontrollable
Variables:
• Absenteeism and workload
• Family problems and absenteeism
• Workload and role conflict
• Role overload and role expectation
• Training and work load

11. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
• To study the stress level among employees.
• To understand the relationship between stress effects
and job satisfaction
SECONDARY OBJECTIVE
• To study the causes of stress among employees
• To study the effects of stress on the health of the
employees
• To analyze the importance of interventional strategies
to manage stress among the employees

12. • Research design-Descriptive research
• Data sources-Primary data
• Sampling design
Sample size-100
Sample technique-Cluster sampling
• Research Instrument-Questionnaire
• Tools for analysis-
Correlation,Regression,Anova
• Limitations

13. THANK YOU