Perceived Stress among Employees of Public Sector Banks and Private Sector Banks:A Comparative Study

The banking sector in India has undergone tremendous changes with increased competition, increased levels of deregulation, which has facilitated the Indian banking system and has placed enormous pressure and has created stress in the bank employees. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the perceived stress level of bank employees from public and private sector of district Sirsa, Haryana. Another objective is to see the gender difference in perceived stress among bank employees of public and private sector banks. For this purpose, our methodology entails a survey of 50 public and 50 private sector bank employees Sirsa district of Haryana, whose responses are measured on Cohen's perceived stress scale. The sample consists 50 male and 50 female participants to find the gender differences in perceived stress. For the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics and t-test are used. The findings of the study suggest that private sector bank employees have higher stress in comparison to their counterpart employees from public sector banks. Regardless to their sector i.e. public & private, the female bank employees show higher stress level than male bank employees.