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Item Occupational Stress: A Study of the Private Banks in Batticaloa District(2011) Victor, L.D.; Thavakumar, D.Employees in many countries increasingly complain about high and rising levels of stress at work. As stress levels have increased, employers have faced rising medical bills, more accident insurance claims, increased absenteeism, and declining morale. Most corporate efforts to handle the problem have focused on the symptoms of stress, with, for example, therapy, counseling, gym memberships, and in-house exercise facilities. This research studies the occupational stress of private bank employees in the Batticaloa District. The data for this study is collected from 100 employees selected from banks. In this study we are concerning about two variables, namely Work Demands and Decision Latitude. Work demands are the psychological stressors the job places on the worker and include: the volume of work, the speed of work, the lack of time, and the conflicts involved in having to do different types of work at the same time. Decision latitude encompasses decision authority, which refers to the worker?s authority to make decisions involving how the work is done, and skill discretion, which refers to his or her opportunity to use a variety of skills on the job. The researchers used the questionnaire to collect the primary data. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyze the data, Mean and standard deviation was used in the descriptive statistics to find out the influence of each factor in the dependent variable, stress. And the correlation and regression was done to find out the relationship between independent and dependent variable. The researchers used SPSS 14.0 to analyze the data. In general, we found that stress increases when work demand is high. And the stress reduces when the decision latitude are high. As a result, we suggest the managers to decrease the work demand and increase the decision latitude to keep the stress in a balance level.Item Work-Family Conflict of Women Employees (Special Reference to Banking Sector) in Batticaloa District(2011) Victor, L.D.; Thavakumar, D.The question of how to strike a balance between work and life is attracting increasing attention at both the national and international level (Crompton and Lyonette, 2006). Interest in this issue has grown with the increase in dual career couples and single-parent households and the concomitant decrease in traditional single income families. As long as the society continues to emphasize a woman?s basic role as that of mothering, working women will face role struggles. As married working women, many women employees have to assume multiple roles in the family in addition to their career. They must be bear major responsibility for household chores and childcare. These responsibilities give rise to work-family conflict, which becomes an obstacle in managing their employment. This research studies the work-family conflict among married women employees in banking sector. The data for this study came from 100 married women in public and private banks who responded to a self-administered questionnaire. By using the primary data, the researchers tend to find out the extent of work characteristics and family characteristics influence on the Work-Family conflict. The work characteristics include Number of hours worked, work flexibility, work stressors. The family characteristics include number of children, age of children, family support. ICBI 2011 Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies 2 The researchers used the questionnaire to collect the primary data. Also researchers used interview method to clarify the things. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyse the data, Mean and standard deviation was used in the descriptive statistics to find out the influence of each factor in the dependent variable, stress. And the correlation and regression was done to find out the relationship between independent and dependent variable. The SPSS 14.0 package was used to analyze the data. From the discussion of the findings, several implications arouse. There is a need for greater spouse support, flexible work schedule child care centers and family support in order to alleviate work-family conflict. Maintenance of good marital relations is important in reducing spouse conflict and increasing well being in women employee.