Open AccessHow does occupational stress affect individuals employed in textiles? An exploratory study from Pakistan
Author(s) -
Aftab Ahmad,
Amjad Hussain,
Ayyaz Ahmad,
Lubna Shaheen,
Usama Abrar,
Farzan Ahmad Khan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
industria textilă
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1222-5347
DOI - 10.35530/it.072.05.20204
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , workforce , productivity , promotion (chess) , clothing , occupational stress , business , exploratory research , marketing , exploratory factor analysis , applied psychology , variance (accounting) , psychology , social psychology , economic growth , political science , communication , service (business) , sociology , politics , anthropology , law , economics , accounting
Occupational stress among the employees has become a major concern for the organizations without exemption for thetextile and clothing industry, a major manufacturing industry of the developing countries. In Pakistan, it contributes 8.5%to the GDP and is a source of employment for 30% of the workforce. This research aims at exploring the effects of jobstress amongst the individuals employed in textiles. For the purpose, data was collected from 1212 textile industryemployees. Deployment of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on the information collected resulted four stress impactfactors, namely psychological, behavioural, performance and effectiveness, and physical. The factors described anoverall accumulative variance of 60.87%, with psychological as the most significant, explaining 40% of the total. Resultsof this work disclose that how Occupational Stress affect the employees of textile and clothing industry. There is a needto understand the complexity of stress phenomenon so that the stress management intervention strategies could bedesigned and implemented accordingly. Findings of this research may be helpful in unfolding the complexity of stressphenomenon and these can be used as a guideline for the design and promotion of more acceptable and viableapproaches or strategies for real-time benefits realization at individual and organizational level in terms of higher jobsatisfaction, motivation and productivity.