A Study on Stress among the Teaching Faculty of Management Institutions

Today we all have to survive in global market where technology, customer perception, competition, international rivals, culture and political environment are changing at faster rate more than our expectation. On the side, everyone has their own family responsibilities. Accordingly we have to prepare ourselves mentally and physically to face the challenges arises before the changing environment. If we fail to fulfil these requirements, we come across with stress. Stress is understood as emotional or physical pressure arises from conflict between external environmental demand and individual internal capability leads stress. The present study is focused on stress of teaching faculty of management institutions from Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri districts. 337 faculty has been selected by using simple random sampling technique. Data has been collected by using questionnaire. The findings of the study highlights that, maximum of 239 (70.92% of total faculty of 337 selected) faculty members are facing moderate stress.