ASSESSMENT OF CONFLICTS AT WORK PLACE AND SOCIAL SUPPORT AMONG MARKETING PROFESSIONALS

Now a day's most of the private company employees especially marketing related professionals are facing both mentaland physical stress in their work place. The present study was conducted to know about the conflicts at workplace thatlead to stress and social support at work to reduce the stress among marketing professionals. An exploratory researchdesign was followed. Sample size of 30 respondents from marketing background was selected by using purposivesampling technique. For both the conflicts at workplace and social support, standard scales were adopted to collect thedata. Correlation was used to compare the data. Results exposed that most of the respondents have very much socialsupport from their spouse, friends and relatives. Respondents have moderately agreed for having conflicts at work placewhich led to stress. Significant positive relationships were found between income and social support; while significantnegative relationships were observed between income and conflicts at workplace.