Organizational Role Stress and Well-Being: A Comparative Study of Employees Working in Libraries of Govt. and Self- Finance Institutions

Abstract

The technological advancement has brought drastic changes in individual, social and organizational life and set up. It has brought revolutionary changes which have made life easy but at the same time brought several challenges which are adversely affecting the health and well-being and 
giving increasing amount of stress. The study aims to compare the levels of organizational role stress and well-being between employees working in libraries of Self Finance and government institutions. The data were collected from eighty library staff looking after the libraries in self – finance and government institutions, selected on the basis of convenience sampling basis. Organizational Role Stress Scale(Pareek,1983) and General Well-Being Scale (Verma and Verma, 1989). The data were analysed using t test and Pearson Coefficient of Correlation. Results revealed that the employees 
working in Self – finance institutions have had lower level of well-being and higher level of organizational role stress. The findings are discussed in the light of earlier studies and implications for the employees.