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Stress Level on the Organization of Woman Engineering Supervisors of Selected Electronics Manufacturing Industry in Laguna

Volume: 124  ,  Issue: 1 , May    Published Date: 02 May 2023
Publisher Name: IJRP
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DOI: 10.47119/IJRP1001241520234804

Authors

# Author Name
1 Engr. Josephine A. Villamin

Abstract

A scrutiny of the stress level on the organization as perceived by some woman engineers in the selected electronics manufacturing industry in Laguna was undertaken. This research aims to determine the stress level on the organization of woman engineering supervisors of selected electronics manufacturing industry in Laguna. The sample consisted of seven (7) establishments sixty six (66) supervisors were taken. Among them belonged to 20-27 years old age bracket, they are mostly single, and almost all of them earned their Bachelors degree in Engineering, had a length of service of 1- 5 years, Junior and Senior Engineer, 1-5 number of employees undertaken, 4-6 years as Engineer in the company, and 8-12 hours average of actual work. The work content assessment of the respondents revealed that workload and work pace, participation and control, role in organization, interpersonal relationship and organizational culture had a low stress response while, working hours category had a moderately high stress. There was a difference on the level of organizational stress of woman engineer supervisor in terms of age, civil status, highest educational attainment, number of employees under direct supervision, number of years as engineer,  number of working hours in the company and length of service consequently, there was no difference on the level of stress of the respondents in terms of their level as engineer in the company.   The effects of organizational stressor to the respondents were increased irritability whereas, serious illnesses such as heart disease were seldom experienced.

Keywords

  • Stress
  • electronics manufacturing industry
  • work content
  • organizational factors