Work-Related Stress among Petroleum Company Employees at their Workplace in Egypt
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Work-Related Stress among Petroleum Company Employees at their Workplace in Egypt, GIHAN B. GHOBRIAL, SOHEIR A. EL-DIN and MONA S. SHENOUDA
Abstract
Work related stress (WRS) has become an important topic to be studied. Several studies have shown that many factors can lead to WRS, this research is conducted to give a holistic view on the WRS causing factors.
Aim: Identify the WRS causing factors among employees at their workplace.
Design: A cross-sectional study was carried out in this study.
Sample: A convenient sample of 200 employees working in a multinational Oil and Gas company in Egypt.
Methodology: An adopted work related stress assessment questionnaire (WRSAQ) developed by Alan Bradshaw (2005), that has demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity, was filled in and submitted by the study sample to assess and identify the WRS causing factors.
Results: Work control was identified as a major component of WRS factor for employees particularly who were females, and those who were working in Human Resource Department. Work life balance was noticed as a key WRS factor for employees who had less than 6 years in the same position. Qualitative work demands were remarked as a main WRS factor for employees who worked in Production Department. Workload was remarked as a significant WRS factor for most of the employees. Organizational factors and role function have an important role to play in determining work stress; however data results did not reveal any ambiguous dominance. Employees between 41 and 50 years old were relevantly exposed to the higher level of WRS than others. Employees worked in Production were relevantly exposed to a higher level of WRS than other departments. Females employees were relevantly more exposed to WRS than males. There was a strong relation between increasing the number of years in the same position and increasing the level of the WRS. Employees with permanent employment contracts were rele-vantly more exposed to higher level of WRS than employees with temporary contracts. Conclusion: The result of the study indicates that, there is strong relationship between certain work factors and the occurrence of WRS.
Recommendation: This research finding supports the Occupational Health Nurse, using the evidence based approach, in developing a program that aimed at managing the WRS causing factors.