THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND FATIGUE ON THE GENERAL QUALITY OF LIFE OF UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES

Abstract

Human capital is one of the valuable assets in any organization which acts like critical driver in achieving its goals and objectives. This study attempts to explore the relationship among occupational stress, physical fatigue and quality of life of university employees. This research incorporates survey method therefore primary data is collected through closed ended questionnaire. Employees working as faculty and admin staffs in three public sector universities located at Jamshoro city are taken as target population. Almost two hundred responses were collected from faculty and admin staff of three universities. Validity and Reliability of data was analyzed using Composite Reliability and Average Variance Extracted. Correlation Coefficient used to measure strength and magnitude among explanatory and explained variables. Regression analysis was used to measure the overall impact of two independent variables i-e Work Stress and Fatigue on dependent variable, i-e quality of life. Findings show both explanatory variables exert negative and significant effect on quality of life of university employees. Study concluded that higher education institutes must have effective HR strategy that ensures prevention of employees from work stress and fatigue as well as it should provide avenues to promote quality of life. The findings of this research are valuable insight for management to promote work-life balance by which employees enable to develop a good balance between personal and professional lives that are win- win approach for organization as well as employees.