WORK RELATED STRESS OF WORKERS IN MINISTRY OF ESTABLISHMENTS, SECRETARIAT, IBADAN, OYO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated the work related stress of workers of Ministry of Establishments, Secretariat, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. It adopted the descriptive type of survey research design. One hundred and sixty six (166) employees of the ministry, 70 males and 69 females, out of this, there are 51 single, 108 married, 117 young (25-45 years) and 49old (45 years and above)were sampled. The instrument used in the study was Work Related Reaction Inventory adapted by the researcher. Data collected were analysed using the student t-test to test the hypotheses. The three hypotheses formulated for testing were confirmed, at 0.05 level of significance that; there is no significant difference in the stress level of male and female, single and married, young and old workers of the Ministry of Establishments, Secretariat, Ibadan. It was concluded that, gender, marital status and age had no significant difference in the stress response of workers in the Ministry of Establishment, Secretariat, Ibadan.-It was thus recommended that the ministry’s management should encourage the employees to take adequate mental and physical relaxation to control blood pressure (BP) and abnormal breathing, meditation is also encouraged and employees should have formal employees communications programme where employees are regularly given information on coping with stress, that is, management and employees talk openly with each other and employees are also free to talk with one another.