Work Stress and Counter Work Productive Behaviour - A case study of banking sector in Pakistan (Paperback)

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, Lovely Professional University (Institute of Business & Information Technology), course: Thesis, language: English, comment: Hira Aftab is Lecturer in Punjab University. Gold medalist of session 2011. She has published research papers and she is the author of several books. Her area of interest is finance and management. Anam Javeed has completed her MBIT degree in 2011 from IBIT., abstract: This research thesis aims to find out the impact of job stress on the counter-productive work behavior (CWB) of employees. Job stress is an important aspect and become a major challenge for the organizations because this job stress became the cause of employee negative behavior. This research is a causal and a cross sectional one. A sample of 352 employees from the banking sector of Pakistan was used for analysis. Job stress has been measured through different factors and their effect on employee CWB is examined and the study results revealed that the job stress among employees lead them somewhat toward counter-productive work behavior and there is a sufficient positive correlation exist between job stress employee CWB. These results are also consistent with the previous researches that job stress lead the employees towards CWB. This study reinforces the importance of employees work behavior which is essential for firms to be successful in the current era.