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Workplace Stress Assessment Among Managers of Textile Industries at Developing Countries: A Case Study from Pakistan

Authors : Aftab Ahmad, Amjad Hussain, Mohammad Pervez Mughal, Nadeem Ahmad Mufti, M. Qaiser Saleem

Published in: Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Textile Industry is the principal manufacturing Industry of Pakistan and has great standing in worldwide businesses. This sector provide employment to around 15 million people. Because of socio-technical complication of working frameworks alongside abnormal state of desires, workplace stress management has turned into a zone of profound concern where textile segment is no exemption. The goal of the present work is to assess the level of perceived stress amongst managers of textile sector organizations. In the study, Sheldon Cohen’s ‘10’ items PSS, ‘Perceived Stress Scale’ was used to collect data from managers belonging to different areas of textile organizations. Around 48% of the subjects were found under high level of stress. Organizations, therefore, are obliged to affluence the circumstances in an attempt to take utmost advantage of their human resource by confirming their well-being at all echelons.

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Metadata
Title
Workplace Stress Assessment Among Managers of Textile Industries at Developing Countries: A Case Study from Pakistan
Authors
Aftab Ahmad
Amjad Hussain
Mohammad Pervez Mughal
Nadeem Ahmad Mufti
M. Qaiser Saleem
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-60371-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-60372-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_37

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