An Empirical Study on the Impact of Covid-19 on Work-Life Stress of Managers

ABSTRACT

Stress is now common word and issues for everyone in this pandemic situation regardless of their age and gender. The aim of this paper is to examine the level of work-life stress among managers, because of work demand from job and support provided by the organization to complete the job. The developmental workplace stressors assessment questionnaire has been used for collecting data from 197 working managers who are working with different organizations, through standard Google form between May to August, 2020. The nature of job in some cases are work from home at this COVID situation. For analyzing data, simple descriptive, inferential and bivariate analysis were done. No signification relationships have been found between age and gender with stress. However, correlations have been found moderate to high among some of the factors responsible for creating stress among managers. This study has been done on entry to the mid-level management with the selective factors of developmental workplace stressors assessment questionnaire which was not found in earlier research on work-life stress measurement in the context of Bangladesh. Future researchers may explore work-life stress with remaining set of factors (variables) with different set of sample composition.