Organizational stress among working women and their methods of coping with organizational stress (A public agency pattern)

ABSTRACT ORGANIZATIONAL STRESS AMONG WORKING WOMEN AND THEIR METHODS OF COPING WITH ORGANİZATIONAL STRESS (A PUBLIC AGENCY PATTERN) Onur YAŞAR Stress is one of the most emphasized topics in today's working life. Any employee, who has some specified roles and responsibilities in a working life, encounters "organizational stress" which is caused by organization atmosphere. This concept is also termed as "job stress" or "occupational stress". On the other hand, women encounter more problems both in the access to working life and during their working according to men just because of being a woman. The main reason of these problems is "the gender based roles" given to women by the society. On the one hand while working women trying to balance between work and domestic life, on the other hand try to struggle many problems. The aim of this thesis is; finding out the organizational stress sources of working women and proposing the solutions in individual and organizational level while struggling these stress sources. For this aim the chosen of the public agency is very important because the agency's first aim is eliminating all forms of discrimination against women while trying to promote social and economic status of women in Turkey. The Thesis has three chapters and in the first chapter, stress, individuals and organizational stress sources, symptoms of stress and results of stress were focused on.The second chapter includes, entrance of women in to working life, reasons of women for working, the situation of working women in Turkey and World, the problems that working women encounter in working life and the ways of coping with organizational stress.The last chapter includes the research about the stress sources and the ways of coping with organizational stress of women who works in General Directorate on the Status of Women. Keywords: Organizational Stress, Working Women.