A STUDY ON OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AMONG WOMEN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BANKING SECTOR

Occupational stress stems from unexpected responsibilities and pressures that do not align with a person's knowledge, skills, or expectations, inhibiting one's ability to cope. It can increase when workers do not feel supported by supervisors or colleagues, or feel as if they have little control over work processes. The need for the study is to ascertain specific problems of employees related to job stress and to find out the level of stress. The present study will help to develop more appropriate strategies to minimize the job stress of employees and these could be incorporated into a well-designed set of human resources policies and also helps as one of the sources for the secondary data for future research also. This study is helpful in assessing the extent of stress experienced by women employees in Banking sector. The population selected for this study are employees of banks mainly women. The sampling population of this study includes 30 women employees from banking sector. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study. KEY TERMS: Occupational Stress, Banking Sector