S International Journal of Commerce http://www.shanlaxjournals.in 23 The Effect of Length of Service and Demographic Variables on Organisational Role Stress of Public Sector Bank Employees Vijay Prakash Gupta Assistant Professor, Department of Management Institute of Technology and Science, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Abstract The study explores the impact of length of service and demographic variables on the organisational role stress on the public sector bank employees. The questionnaire employed in this study is Organisational Role Stress (ORS) scale developed by Prof. Udai Pareek (1983) where length of service, gender, age, education, number of family members and income are independent variables and Organisational Role Stress (ORS) is dependent variable. The sample for the study consist of 415 public sector bank employees. Simple random sampling is used as a sampling technique. Data was analysed using Multiple Regression. The results revealed that length of service, age, education and income signicantly impact the organisational role stress (ORS) on the public sector bank employees. Keywords: Length of service, Demographic variable, Organisational Role Stress, Public Sector Bank Employees. Introduction The stress can be variously thought as a response to a stimulus, i.e. as a stressor itself; and as an intervening variable. A prime example of response definition was given by Selye (1936, and 1976) defined stress as a dynamic condition in which a person faces an opportunity, constrain, or demand which is concerned to his or her wants but the outcome of such wants is significant and unpredictable. The modern definition of stress states that this is a personal experience caused by pressure or expectations on an individual and impact upon the individual’s ability to cope or his/her perception of that ability. The Concept of Stress Selye (1936) stated stress is derived both from desirable and undesirable life-events. Undesirable events causes distress which has adverse effects on the individuals while desirable events provides Eustress which has pleasant and curative effects. Beehr and Newman (1978) defined stress as a condition arising from the interaction of people and their jobs and characterised by the changes within people which force them to deviate from their normal function. Stress in Organisational Roles Stress, as a problem associated with the existence of the individual, has been, therefore, accepted and consequently reflected in the Indian thought. The philosophical and religious texts belonging to the very distant past like Ramayana and Bhagwad Gita and different indigenous systems like Samkhya, Yoga and Ayurveda discussed native shapes of stress. Dukha (pain, suffering), OPEN ACCESS Volume: 7 Issue: 3 Month: July Year: 2019 ISSN: 2320-4168 Received: 14.05.2019 Accepted: 26.06.2019 Published: 01.07.2019 Citation: Gupta, Vijay Prakash. “The Effect of Length of Service and Demographic Variables on Organisational Role Stress of Public Sector Bank Employees.” Shanlax International Journal of Commerce, vol. 7, no. 3, 2019, pp. 23-27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34293/ sijash.v7i1.489 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.