Job stress among academic staff: The case of community colleges in Pahang

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between role conflict, role ambiguity, job promotion, working conditions and workloads to job stress. The survey method was used to collect the primary data through the use of a questionnaire to the community college academic staff in Pahang...

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Main Author:	Norliana, Ali
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Language:	eng eng
Published:	2015
Subjects:	HD58.7 Organizational Behavior. HF5548.7-5548.85 Industrial Psychology
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description	The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between role conflict, role ambiguity, job promotion, working conditions and workloads to job stress. The survey method was used to collect the primary data through the use of a questionnaire to the community college academic staff in Pahang. 103 of questionnaire were distributed and all 103 questionnaires were successfully collected. The descriptive and inferential analyses were conducted. The results of this study showed that role conflict, role ambiguity, job promotion, working conditions and workloads are all positive correlated to job stress. Role conflict, workloads and job promotion are moderately correlated with job stress. While role ambiguity and working conditions factors is low correlation to job stress. This results of this study provides information about job stress among college community academic staff in Pahang to policy maker for improvement the community college management
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spelling	my-uum-etd.52602021-04-04T08:16:28Z Job stress among academic staff: The case of community colleges in Pahang 2015 Norliana, Ali Md Said, Nor Pujawati Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HD58.7 Organizational Behavior. HF5548.7-5548.85 Industrial Psychology The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between role conflict, role ambiguity, job promotion, working conditions and workloads to job stress. The survey method was used to collect the primary data through the use of a questionnaire to the community college academic staff in Pahang. 103 of questionnaire were distributed and all 103 questionnaires were successfully collected. The descriptive and inferential analyses were conducted. The results of this study showed that role conflict, role ambiguity, job promotion, working conditions and workloads are all positive correlated to job stress. Role conflict, workloads and job promotion are moderately correlated with job stress. While role ambiguity and working conditions factors is low correlation to job stress. This results of this study provides information about job stress among college community academic staff in Pahang to policy maker for improvement the community college management 2015 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/5260/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/5260/1/s813855.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/5260/2/s813855_abstract.pdf text eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Abdullah M., Al-Rubaish., Idris A. Rahim., et al. (2011). Academic Job Satisfaction Questionnaire: Construction and Validation in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Family and Community Medicine, 18(18), 1-7. Ahmad Usman., Zulfiqar Ahmed., Ishfaq Ahmad and Zeeshan Akbar.(2011). Work stress experienced by the teaching staff of university of the Punjab, Pakistan: Anteecedents and consequences. 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