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A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT OF IT SECTOR'S EMPLOYEES IN CONTRASTING ECONOMIES
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Aim is to examine the relationship between occupational stress and organisational commitment of employees at middle and operational level. Additionally, the occupational therapists role is examined through self-developed ‘stress model’ containing perceived job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and distinctive stressors. Using purposive, snowball and convenience sampling 825 responses (403 from UK and 422 from Pakistan) gathered through on-line matrix based survey questionnaire to gain quantitative perspective. Findings showed female workers are less stress than male workers. Due to low social support, non-managerial employees are vulnerable to stress than their counterpart managerial position employees. Furthermore, Pakistani workforce experience greater stress than UK workforce does. Moreover, personal factors stressed females while organisational factors affect males. Personality often hinders females' organisational commitment while role demand and organisational leadership mainly affect male employees in both countries. Females use support more often than males for overcoming stress. Managerial position males have higher affective commitment whereas managerial level females have high normative commitment and continuance commitment. Although, degree of stress is higher in Pakistan comparing to UK but causes and effects are not significantly different.
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- University of Wales Trinity Saint David, ul Haque, A., University of Brunel, & Aston, J.
- Affiliations
- Brunel University of London (GB)
- ORCID
- Aston, John
- Venue
- Polish Journal of Management Studies
- Publisher
- Czestochowa University of Technology
- Published
- 2016-06
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 95-105
- ISSN
- 2081-7452 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2596683059
- Cited by
- 83
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- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 5
- FWCI
- 10.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- doi.org
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- Polish Journal of Management Studies (publishedVersion)
- Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Workplace Health and Well-being
- Keywords
- occupational stress, organizational commitment, IT professionals, gender differences, social support, affective commitment, normative commitment, continuance commitment, role demands, organizational leadership, cross-national comparison, United Kingdom, Pakistan, occupational therapists
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