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Subramanian, Somasundaram
- Comparison between Public and Private Sector Executives on Key Psychological Aspects
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1 Department of Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.
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Journal of Organization and Human Behaviour, Vol 1, No 1 (2012), Pagination: 24-32Abstract
Although, much of the debate is centered around structural differences of business sectors due to the emergence of liberalization and globalization policies in almost all spheres of business fields, hardly any research studies have been reported on existence of significant difference between public sector and private sector on psychological aspects. The present study, is aimed at investigating whether any significant difference exists between the public sector and private sector executives on various psychological aspects such as occupational stress, job involvement, hardiness and burnout. Data obtained from 60 (public and private sector) executives on the four key psychological aspects revealed that significant difference exists between the private and public sector executives. Private sector executives are more likely to have higher levels of occupational stress particularly in terms of role conflict, unreasonable group conflict and responsibility for persons. Further, the private sector executives tend to have higher levels of job involvement and hardiness personality and, lesser levels of emotional exhaustion (burn-out) than the public sector executives. Implications in terms of policy making, stress management program, hardiness training and ways to avert burnout are discussed.Keywords
Public And Private Sector Executives, Occupational Stress, Burnout, Job Involvement, Hardiness
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- Psychological Factors Determining High Intentions to Join Defence Services among Adolescents
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1 Department of Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore., IN
2 Department of Psychology, Bharathir University, Coimbatore., IN
1 Department of Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore., IN
2 Department of Psychology, Bharathir University, Coimbatore., IN
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Journal of Organization and Human Behaviour, Vol 1, No 2 (2012), Pagination: 39-45Abstract
The comparison of the adolescents with high Intentions to join Defence Services to those with low Intentions to join can help the authorities to identify the key determinant factors in choosing Defence as career. A thorough investigation of exploring such key determinant factors will facilitate to plan for suitable strategies for providing proper solutions to enhance youth's strong Intention to join Defence Services. A sample of 300 Pre-University students studying in the vicinity of Bangalore city was approached to provide data on their career Intentions using a Career Choice Schedule. Data on Mental Toughness, Life Values, and Adjustment and Personality traits were collected from these two groups (High Intention and Low Intention) of respondents. The statistical analysis of "t" tests revealed that the High Intention group tends to have low adjustment in dimensions of family, social and educational fields comparing to Low Intention group adolescents. Similarly, the High Intentions group and Low Intention group differ significantly on Mental Toughness factors such as focus and goal commitment. Regarding life values dimensions the High Intention group is likely to show more importance to values such as belonging, concern for environment, responsibility, humility, independence and less importance on privacy than Low Intention group. The Personality traits also differ significantly between the two groups of adolescents. The High Intention group is more agreeable and conscientious comparing to their counterparts and low on extroversion comparing to Low Intention group. The implications of the study in terms of policy making and orientation programme to enhance competency to join Defence Forces are suggested.Keywords
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