A Descriptive Study of Work Stress among the Teachers of Higher Educational Institutions

Abstract

Teachers are the role models of their students, but recently with the spurt of globalization, there is inundation of private universities in the country catering to the educational demands and needs of the youth. Therefore, the rare and much elusive career of glory and high regard, latched with the profession of teaching is a bygone fable of the past, and what it now brings forth with itself is insanely high standards of workload, flustered role ambiguities, inter-role distances and role overload, undue career concerns; that job insecurities and crappy pays imply and putrefied work environment as well as flimsy interpersonal relations in the form of peer backbiting and barbs and parochial competitions. These are some of the stressors that plague the teachers of higher educational environs of the country. The upshot of this entire predicament is the pussy-footed noxious element of work stress. The present study addresses the same issue of higher educational faculties and is thoroughly descriptive in character and spirit.