A Survey on Occupational Stress of Bank Employees

Occupational stress has become one of the global issues in the current working environment. Though the modern day organisations have succeeded in coping up with changing industry structures, their success in tackling their employees’ stress level is still a question mark. Unless employers do not try to lower their employees stress level, it will affect their organisations indirectly by various means such as increase in absenteeism, high employee turnover etc. Especially it is not good for organisations such as financial institutions where lump sum money is involved in day to day activities. Also the modernisation of the industry led to various changes in the working environment there by challenging the ability of employees to cope up with it. Due to these reasons, employees working in financial sector particularly bank employees are more prone to stress. Hence it is mandatory to study their stress levels in order to avoid negative consequences. So this paper attempts to review such studies that have been carried out in the recent past in finding out bank employees stress level. The similar studies such as study on stressors, study on how occupational stress vary with demographic factors, nature of banks, job cadres, job satisfaction and job performance etc are grouped under same captions for our easier understanding. The paper also throws light on the scope of future research work in this area and adds definitely to the existing literature. We have furthermore addressed limitations of the previous studies and have presented about our ongoing research work focus.