An Empirical Stress Level Study of Warehouse of Ahmedabad City

Abstract

            Employee turnover in the warehousing industry has historically been extremely high. The current research proposes that one of the keys to maximizing employee retention is focusing on good person-organization fit. The research examines the relationships between person-organization fit, job satisfaction, and coping behaviors (escape and control behaviors) within a sample of 667 warehouse operations employees. Business stress is becoming a major issue in both corporate and social agenda. In industrialized countries, there have been quite dramatic changes in the conditions at work, during the last decade, caused by economic, social and technical development. As a consequence, the people today at work are exposed to high quantitative and qualitative demands as well as hard competition caused by global economy. A recent report says that ailments due to work related stress is likely to cost Indias exchequer around 72000 crores between 2009 and 2015. Though India is a fast developing country, it is yet to create facilities to mitigate the adverse effects of work stress, more over only little efforts have been made to assess the work related stress. The key goal of this research study is to analyse stress level amongst employees working in warehouses in Ahmedabad city. 200 around workers of warehouse industry targeted to study the stress level.