Causes of Stress in Organization, a Case Study of Sukkur

The aim of this study is to investigate the main causes of stress for employees working in different industries inSukkur and their vicinity. Stress is taken as dependent variable whereas independent variables are categorizedinto extra-organizational and intra-organizational stressors. Data were collected from different sectors suchservice, manufacturing and distribution including banks, insurance companies, manufacturing (LU ContinentalBiscuit Factory Sukkur and Engro Foods) and distribution (Medicine distribution firms). Data were collectedthrough self-administrative questionnaire consisting of 20 questions. Respondents were only the employeesworking at operational level. From the results it was quite clear that employees working in different areas feelgreat stress, there were different causes due to which employee experience stress. Findings have been classifiedinto extra-organizational and intra-organizational stressors. Extra-organizational stressors include variables suchas climate, economic conditions and employee family, whereas intra-organizational stressors include variablessuch as company policies, working conditions, and leadership, workload and office timings. According to results33% of overall stress is caused by factors outside organization whereas 67% stress is due to internal factors. Itwas also found that major cause of stress is workload (25%) because employees are been utilized more than theircapabilities, second major cause for stress is timings (16%) as employees work for long hours, next cause forstress is climate (11%) as employees especially from distribution side have to go outside offices to meet theirclients and customers so hot weather, traveling distances and transportation system really give them tough timewhich result in stress. Next stressor is leadership as leader-employee relationship is needed to be very good butaccording to some employees their bosses do not behave well due to which they feel stressed. Other causesinclude economic, family, company policies and working conditions with percentage of 11%, 8%, 7% and 7%respectively.