Scientific Assessment of Stressors and Identification of Potential Performance Gap of Teaching Fraternity in Government & Private Segments

Abstract

Stress and Stressors are common to any human being; it is a concern as it affects a person physically, psychologically and biologically. Stress is created at the workplace due to factors such as heavy workload, continuous working hours without proper rest, improper decision making, lack of proper leadership and above all, poor inter-relationship among all sectors. Continuous stressors result in deterioration of health affecting the health of the employee.  They affect the well-being of the employees. These stressors harm the individual’s productivity at the workplace which affects the development and the progress of the organization. Teaching as an occupation is perceived as a modest profession; it creates leaders, scientists, philosophers, advocates, politicians and administrators. This study attempts to highlight the stressors that affect the performance of the teachers at the workplace. The tool executed for the study was a well-structured, close-ended questionnaire which constitutes 10 vital components covering the general goal of the study. The factors are indexed on a 5-point Likert-scale ranging from the maximum of 5 points for Strongly Agree to a minimum of 1 point for Strongly Disagree. The data was obtained on a sample of 100 respondents belonging to teachers of Chennai and its outskirts of both private and government schools. The data obtained were investigated using statistical techniques such as Mean, Standard Deviation, and t-Test. The findings suggested that institutions that value their employees with due respect and work together as a team are found successful. Passion in work is the key to success and consistency in work is the way to success, both can be achieved only with passionate and lovable employees. The employees stand as the most important tool to the success of the organization and it becomes the need of the hour for every organization to ensure that it strives hard to keep its employees free from work stressors and make them happy to increase the overall productivity and the profitability of the organization.