Effect of Job Stress and Organizational Commitment: A Case on Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka
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2012
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Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka
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Human Resource plays a major role in every organization. Therefore, behavior of the employees can be affected to the organization performance. Hence, organizations have to highly focus on human resources. Job stress, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover are associated with the human resource. Work related stress associated with employees of the organization. Further, both degrees of Job stress and organizational commitment are revealed by the success or failure of the organization. Job stress is a natural reaction of the employee that occurs when the pressure becomes overload. Organizational commitment is an employee's willingness to provide their effort on behalf of the organization to achieve organization goals and maintain citizenship behavior(Mowday, Steers & Porter, 1979).
Stress at work is a relatively new phenomenon of modern lifestyles and also stress is one of the outcomes of the employees. Job stress is the harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, responses, or need of the worker (U.S Department of Health, 2002).Organizational commitment is "a psychological state that characterizes organizational members 'relationship with the organization and has implications for the decision to continue or discontinue membership in the organization" (Meyer & Allen, 1991). Previous scholars illustrated that job stress is one of the predictors of organizational commitment and research finding have provided conflicting results. Moreover, most of the researches have concerned on service sector with regard to this research areaand there is no significant studies in the context of Sri Lanka with related to job stress and organizational commitment in the apparel industry.
Apparel industry is a labour incentive industry in Sri Lanka. Hence, organization performance is highly depended on employees. The apparel sector is the highest industrial employment generator that 350000 women employees are working (which is 85% of the industries work force) by 2010(Board of Investment in SriLanka, 2011) and the highest foreign exchange earner in Sri Lanka as , by 2010, total export income of the apparel sector was reported as US$3.5Bn.which is equivalent to 42.9% of the total exports of the country (Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, 2011).However, it is observed that Sri Lankan garment industry workers are suffering from work stress (Fernando,2009). Therefore, study primarily focused at finding the relationship between Job Stress and Organizational Commitment in the apparel industry.
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Entrepreneurship and Manangment, Human Resource Management, Human Rights Education