Abstract:
The research on Stress Levels of Employees in Mattress Industry: A Case Study of Oriental Mattress Industry Company Limited has objectives to study the stress levels and factors influencing on the stress levels of employees in mattress industry. The methodology employed in this research is a quantitative method. A questionnaire is designed to survey a focus group of 130 manufacturing employees of Oriental Mattress Industry Company Limited.
According to the findings, it reveals that in terms of the organizational factors as a whole picture, the sampling group is ranked in a rather high level. In consideration of each individual aspect, it is found that there are four factors gained a rather high level while the remaining one gained a low level. The factor ranked in higher to highest level is structure and atmosphere of organization which is mach more than other factors such as role and responsibility. Job and task, and relationship with other people. In case of the success and career path, it is ranked in a low level.
Upon study of the stress levels revels related to work performance, it demonstrates that the sampling group expresses their tension or feels stressed in a rather high level. The top five symptoms are 1) being difficult to fall asleep or unable to get deep sleep due to worry and anxiety, 2) having trembling voice, hand or mouth shaking upon dissatisfaction with colleagues or upon being warned by their superiors, 3) feeling frustrated or annoyed with surrounding people and feeling tired or reluctant to go to work, 4) being nervous or going slow on work to ascertain its accuracy and
5) being confused or having a headache. All these five factors show that the sampling group suffers above- average stress which is probably owing to possession of extreme emotional trouble resulted from conflict or life crisis. According to hypothesis testing, it reveals that age, economic status and necessity to spend on monthly household expenses have significant influence on the stress levels of employees. Regarding the other five facets of organizational factors, they have no effect on stress levels of employees in Oriental Mattress Industry Company Limited. I