Organizational role stress: An empirical perspective of university teachers of kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Stress is considered as spice of life & inevitable and organizational role stress originates with organizational demands that are experienced by the individual. Employees who are prone to stress more likely to be unhealthy, dissatisfied, less motivated, negligible productive, insecure at work place and less committed to organizations. In the present research, an attempt was made to find out the various dimension of organizational role stress associated with university teachers. The sample comprised of PrinceSattam bin Abdulaziz University Teachers working in different colleges in Al-Kharj, KSA. Pareek's (1983) Organizational role stress scale and demographical information sheet used to gather information of the employees. Descriptive as well as inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The findings of the present research revealed that (i) inter-role distance and role overload appeared most potent stressors whereas role ambiguity seemed the least dominant stressor among all the groups of teaching staff in Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, (ii) the group of Lecturers was found significantly higher degree of stress on role overload, role isolation, self-role distance and total organizational role stress than the Assistant Professors whereas, Assistant Professors experienced higher degree of stress on personal inadequacy and role stagnation than Professors and (iii) no significant differences were observed between the group of lecturers & Associate Professors, Assistant Professors & Associate Professors and Associate Professors & Professors. The present study has certain limitations as well as some remedial suggestions for future investigations to cope the role stress.