A Study on Job Stress and Productivity of Women Employees Working in the IT Sector: A Structural Model

Abstract

The role of women has changed from homemakers to working women, and the beautiful sector is the IT sector. This sector has about 1/3rd of women employees among 4 million IT employees. The present study identifies the 8 factors influencing Job Stress and four aspects of the Productivity of women employees in select IT companies by EFA and CFA. The Job Stress factors identified through CFA are Workload, Role Ambiguity, Job Security, Gender Discrimination, Interpersonal Relationships, Resource Constraints, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Support. The Productivity factors are Timing, Competence of Supervisors, Compensation, Systems and Procedures. An attempt has been made by the researcher to frame the Job Stress and Productivity using the SEM model, where the model shows a good fit.