An exploratory study of Occupational Stress Index of Non-Governmental Workplace during Covid-19 virus in Erbil, Kurdistan Region.
Karwan Hushyar Sherwani
Department of Business and Management, Tishk International University, Erbil Iraq
Correspondence: [email protected]
Abstract
Occupational stress can be defined as the variation of an individual’s mental and/or physical state in response to occurrences at their workplace. Occupational stress can happen when there is any inconsistency between the physiological and mental demands within an organization and the inability of the employees to successfully handle and/or cope with the requested work demands. This research is a quantitative study and was conducted during the period of COVID-19 spread across the world and specifically in the Kurdistan region. The samples were taken from two different non-governmental organizations, SWEDOaid, previously known as QANDIL and Human Appeal both based in Erbil, Iraq. A web-based survey was created based on the Occupational Stress Index (OSI) and was distributed of the surveys collected, all 128 were reliable sources of information since all the questions were mandatory for completion. The results show that the level of occupational stress among the employees was moderate and there was no difference between the genders of the study in terms of perceiving the stress and the number of factors in the scale can be reduced to nine factors according to the current sample of the study.
Keywords: Occupational Stress Index, Non-governmental organizations, NGO, Kurdistan, Stress Level.
Doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.23918/ejmss.V2i2p1
Published: July 1, 2021
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