A Research on RelationshipBetween Sources of Individual and Organizational Stress for Bank Personnell

Abstract

Individuals and organizations face various changes during the time. If those individuals and organizations cannot adapt the changes, they are inevitably exposed to stress. In this study it is aimed to investigate the relationship between the sources of individual and organizational stress (occur from organizational structure and policies, structure of the job and the relations between the individuals). Besides, it is examined whether those stress sources differs according to socio-demographic variables. According to the results it is found that there is a significant relationship between individual stress factors and organizational stress factors. For demographic variables the results are as follows: there is a significant relation between the seniority and the job structure and stress factors arise from interpersonal relations, also significant relations found between status and stress factors arise from interpersonal relations. In general, there is a significant positive corelation among all stress factors.