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Influence Of Gender And Job Status On Employee Stress Among The Nigerian Police Force
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Secondly,
men appear more likely than women to seek medical help for anxiety
symptoms, especially panic attacks. Men may view these symptoms as
annoying medical problem rather than signs of anxiety in their
personalities. As a result, organizational men may be more likely than
women do receive effective treatment in the early stages of possible
anxiety disorder. Not all women who have stress symptoms seek
appropriate help for them, however.
Furthermore, women in many
cultures face threats in their daily life that quite reasonably would
lead them to be chronically anxious and more prone to all of the anxiety
disorders. In particular, women are more likely than men to be target
of physical and sexual abuse.
Girls and women who have been
physically or sexually abused are at increased risk for most anxiety
disorders. In turn, women who have been abused are more likely to become
unemployed, to have reduced income and become divorced thus, these
women suffer a host of circumstance that are difficult to control, may
be unpredictable and this contribute to anxiety. Even women who have not
been victimized may be chronomically anxious due to persuasive threat
of violence at work places (Nolen –Hoeksema, 2001).
Both high and low
status individuals, while at work place are been prone to stressors in
one way or the other, but the facts lies on the question to know at
which extent a junior officer are been affected with stress and to his
senior.
The evidence therefore explain that in any organizational
section then is a great disparity between the employer and employee in
all aspect of work activities. Organizations take as its high job status
individuals to be managing directors, managers, supervisors etc while
low job status individuals as Forman, Messengers, Labourers etc. In the
Nigerian Police Force, for instance the high job status individuals are
called the Superior Police Officers (S.P.O.’s) which start from the rank
of Assistant Superintendent of Police upwards while the Junior Officers
are called the Rank and file which start from the rank of constable to
an Inspector. The determination of the effect of stress on these two
categories of personals in any organisation depends on their scope of
responsibility which each group undertake.
The high job status
individuals precisely have a greater role or task to do as against the
lower job status canterpart. In an organisation, it is the duty of the
employer to recruit, select and place its, employee’s in various work
position.
In order to enhance effectiveness in organization, the
employer tries to direct, supervise, advice, control and instruct
employee’s in the job activities to achieve greater result, all these
chain of responsibilities contribute to stress on the side of the high
job status individuals.
In the Nigerian Police Force, the Superior
Police Officers (SPO’s) suffer more stress than the junior police
officers due to their scope of responsibility, large coverage and span
of control.
They take charge and control the Junior Police Officers
on their various duties, visit them at their respective beat posted,
supervise them administratively and be at the fore front of any
operational duties. The time phrase for the superior police officers are
unlimited in the aspect of work activities where as the Junior Police
Officers are limited to eight hours (8hrs) depending on the nature of
duty performed.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Dealing with stress is a
concern both for the individuals and for the organisation. For
individuals, it is important because life, health, productivity and
income can be affected while for organisation, it is important not only
for humanitarian reasons but also performance in all aspect. It
therefore follows that organizational effectiveness can be affected if
workers are prone to stress.
Therefore the essence of this study is to investigate, how stressful the police job poses on the workers.
The influence of gender on stress of officers in the police force.
The influence of job status on stress of officers in the police force.
PURPOSE OF STUDY
This
study aims at investigating the influence of Gender and Job Status on
employees stress among the Nigerian Police Force. In precise terms, it
is planed to:
Find out the reactions of policemen and policewomen to
stress, in order words, the effect of gender on stress in the Nigerian
Police Force.
Find out how senior police officers and junior police
officers respond to stress, that is the influence of job status or rank
on stress in the Nigerian police force.
OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS
Gender:
This is the biological, social and cultural division into
which man is classified. In this study, gender is used to
mean being male or female participants.
Job Status: This is used in the study to mean junior police officers and senior police officers.
Job
or Employee Stress: This is referring to the discomfort,
hardship and pressure experience by workers in the
process of work.
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