EFFECTS OF JOB STRESS ON PERFORMANCE OF ACCADAMICIANS WORKING IN PUBLIC SECTOR UNIVERSITIES OF PUNJAB

This study examines the effects of job stress on performance of academician working inpublic sector universities of Punjab. Through reviewing an extendable literature on differentindicators of job stress were accorded. Quantitative descriptive research method wasapproached and survey method was used to collect data from academic heads, academia andstudents who were enrolled in different departments. Three different inventories as tool ofdata collection were prepared on the basis of different indicators of job stress. Uni-variate andmultiple regression analysis were used to analyse the data. It was concluded that multipleindicators interlink with each other affect job performance of academia and their heads,students good and bad performance also depends on academia stress. Many of theseindicators have diverse effect on job performance but slight variations of stress are prevailedamong old, permanent and aged academia as compare to new, non permanent and youngacademia. It was also suggested that university must assess the level of stress amongacademia and minimize the frustration and disappointment level among academia to copeprevailing situation of stress.