Title: An empirical evaluation of stress and its impact on the engineering colleges faculty members in Tamil Nadu

Authors: A. Senthil Kumar; R. Seranmadevi

Addresses: Department of Professional Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ' School of Management, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: The present study examined the specific causes, levels and effects of stress experienced by faculty members who worked in unaided private engineering and technology (UPET) colleges in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Factor analysis and structural model were used to evaluate the relationship between the causes, subsequent effects at different level of stress and the appropriate personal and organisational stress coping strategies. Primary data were collected from 560 faculty members by employing convenience sampling method during the academic year 2017-2018. The study revealed that causes of stress influencing considerably the level of stress and the level of stress explained the high influence on the effect of stress variables. Both effects of stress and causes of stress were negatively influencing the stress coping strategies of personal as well as organisational level strategies.

Keywords: causes of stress; coping strategies; effects of stress; factor analysis; faculty; higher education; level of stress; stress; unaided private engineering and technology; UPET; work environment.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPSPM.2020.110986

International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, 2020 Vol.6 No.6, pp.908 - 929

Received: 13 Sep 2018
Accepted: 19 Dec 2018
Published online: 04 Nov 2020 *

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