The Effect of organizational stressors(sources of organizational stress) on job satisfaction and a research for bank employees

ABSTRACTMaster?s ThesisThe Effect Of Organızatıonal Stressors (Sources Of Organızatıonal Stress) On JobSatısfactıon And A Research For Bank EmployeesSevgül AKGÜNDÜZDokuz Eylül UniversityManagement and OrganizationThe purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between jobsatisfaction and organizational stressors.Negative consequences resulting from organizational stressors and jobdissatisfaction resemble each other and these consequences cause seriousproblems for organizations. This study aims to contribute to hinder formingthese consequences investigating organizational stressors and jobdissatisfaction.Total 149 bank employees worked in 10 bank join the research relatedthese study. Organizational stressors are investigated in four dimensions;stress resulted from organizational policies, stress resulted from organizationalstructure, work structure-related stress, stress resulted from relationshipbetween workers. And job dissatisfaction is investigated in two dimensions: jobsatisfaction resulted from job environment and job satisfaction resulted fromjob contents. Also, individual stress situations of workers join the research areinvestigated.The study found that organizational stress levels are low and parallelwith each other as organizational stress dimensions of bank employees.However, bank employees live more stress resulted from organizationalstructure as comparative in dimensions of organizational stress. When bankemployees job satisfaction levels investigated, there are low job satisfactionlevels resulted from job environment and also resulted from job contents.Bank employees more satisfied with job satisfaction resulted from jobenvironment than job satisfaction resulted from job contents as comparative.According to results of the research there is a meaningful relationshipbetween job satisfaction resulted from job environment and job contents andwork structure-related stress only. This relationship is negative for twodimensions of job satisfaction.Key World: 1) Job Satısfactıon2) Sourcesof Organızatıonal Stress