ANALYSIS OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THEIR WORK

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of occupational stress on cadre, nature of job and work experience of university teachers. Instrument was used in order to get the responses from university teachers in order to accomplish the above stated objectives. Inferential statistics, descriptive statistics, frequency tables, Post-hoc and ANOVA analyses were used to analyse the data. Study concluded that that there is a significant difference in the means score of faculty members having different job cadres regarding their stress levels, when ANOVA was applied. While significant difference is found between lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors and professors. Application of Post-hoc inducted statistically significant difference between age group of 0-3 years and above 21 years of faculty members. In the last, the computation of ANOVA reveals no statistically significance difference among different types of teaching options, such as contract, permanent and visiting. Remedial measures are given at the end to manage the stress of university faculty.