Published Online:January 2026
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Organizational Behavior
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJOB060109
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Author Name:Sandhya Mehta* and Sandeep Kaur**
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Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:7
Educational researchers have long been concerned with role stress among teachers. The concept of role and its two related aspects, role space and role set, have built-in potential for conflict and stress. Comparative study of Organizational Role Stress (ORS) among technical and nontechnical teachers was carried out in Ludhiana, using ORS Scale. The study revealed that Resource Inadequacy was higher for technical teachers as compared to nontechnical teachers for the whole sample and for the lower age group (< 30 years). For the higher age group (> 30 years), Personal Inadequacy and Role Ambiguity were higher for technical teachers as compared to nontechnical teachers.
Stress has become the most important factor influencing individual efficacy and satisfaction in modern day occupational settings. Once stress exceeds a certain limit, it can cause burnout and detrimentally affect work performance. In this context, the teaching profession is increasingly characterized by occupational stress. Educational researchers have long been concerned with role stress among teachers. This study aims at how role stress operates on technical and nontechnical teachers. They were administered Organizational Role Stress (ORS) Scale developed by Pareek (2002, pp. 545-547) to measure 10 types of role stress experienced by them. A number of studies on ORS have been conducted in educational settings (Conley and Woosley, 2000; Jesus and Conboy, 2001; Pestonjee and Azeem, 2001; and Antoniou et al., 2006). Mohan and Chauhan (1999) in a comparative study of 200 managers of government, public and private sectors, found that the managers of public sector experienced maximum Role Erosion and Self-Role Conflict, followed by government and private sector. The private sector seems to have better work climate, which is giving enough forward orientation in one’s job role and fewer intra-personal conflicts. This can have implications for improvement of work climate in public sector. Female teachers experienced significantly higher levels of occupational stress, specifically with regard to interaction with students and colleagues, workload, students’ progress and emotional exhaustion. Younger teachers experienced higher levels of burnout, specifically in terms