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Textile Industry is the principal manufacturing Industry of Pakistan and has great standing in worldwide businesses. This sector provide employment to around 15 million people. Because of socio-technical complication of working frameworks alongside abnormal state of desires, workplace stress management has turned into a zone of profound concern where textile segment is no exemption. The goal of the present work is to assess the level of perceived stress amongst managers of textile sector organizations. In the study, Sheldon Cohen’s ‘10’ items PSS, ‘Perceived Stress Scale’ was used to collect data from managers belonging to different areas of textile organizations. Around 48% of the subjects were found under high level of stress. Organizations, therefore, are obliged to affluence the circumstances in an attempt to take utmost advantage of their human resource by confirming their well-being at all echelons.
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Ahmad, A., Hussain, A., Mughal, M.P., Mufti, N.A., Qaiser Saleem, M. (2018). Workplace Stress Assessment Among Managers of Textile Industries at Developing Countries: A Case Study from Pakistan. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 594. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_37
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