Awam M. Karthikeyan
Institute of Cooperatives and Development Studies, Ambo University, Ethiopia
Cooperatives have a different kind of management and administration system. Though the members are the owners, the governing authority is the government (through the officials) because of the initiation, sponsorship given by it to the cooperative movement in our country. There are reasons for stress in a cooperative enterprise such as workload, working conditions, and so on.
This paper attempts to find out the reasons for and reactions to the stress among the employees of the Central Cooperative Bank (CCB) in Dindigul District in Tamilnadu, India; to identify the stress and disclose the factors responsible for the causes of stress; and identify stress management techniques followed by the employees; and to coin out strategies to manage and reduce stress. Since it is empirical in nature, survey method was adopted and Dindigul CCB was selected purposively. The employees at the strategic, tactic and operational level were selected by employing census method sampling procedure. A well-designed questionnaire consists of statements to be responded on five point scale was administered among the respondents to elicit information in tune to the objectives of the study. The collected information was processed and analyzed, and major findings were given.
The result of the study shows that the operational level employees has more stress than other levels of employees of the bank. They are feeling stress by mental energy drains, physical energy drains and spiritual energy drains. Most of the respondents recently have been used to go for walk in the morning, yoga and go for games and recreational activities as stress management techniques to reduce the stress.