Research on Humanities and Social Sciences www.iiste.org ISSN (Paper)2224-5766 ISSN (Online)2225-0484 (Online) Vol.7, No.1, 2017 1 A Study on Occupational Stress Among Faculty Members in Private Institutes of Hyderabad, Sindh Liaquat Ali Rahoo System Administrator, MUET Library & Online Information Center, Jamshoro, Sindh Syed Ali Raza MS, Research Scholar, Mehran University Institute of Science, Technology and Development, MUISTD, Jamshoro, Sindh Muhammad Waqas Arain MS, Research Scholar, Mehran University Institute of Science, Technology and Development, MUISTD, Jamshoro, Sindh Prof. Muhammad Memon IBA, University of Sindh, Jamshoro Abstract The topic “Occupational Stress among faculty members in Higher Educational Institutions of Hyderabad” was selected with the overall purpose of understanding the phenomenon of stress among faculty members and to find out how they combat stress operatively and strategically in higher educational institutions. The questionnaire was used as an instrument to collect data from 130 faculty members of different higher educational institutions in Hyderabad. The sample was taken by the stratified random sampling among the institutions of management, information technology, engineering, law, science and other faculties. The sample of research study included all teaching positions who were related to teaching with different designation as a Lab Instructor, Lecturer, assistant professors, associate professors, and professors. Seventy six percent of the respondents were women. The respondents’ responses were measured by the following Stressors: workload, situations at work, and relations with colleagues at work, efforts for students, work for organization benefits, and social acknowledgment with his status. The results exposed that the determining factor of stress between the administrators and teaching staff, with compiling of results, time burdens, infrastructure, student’s indiscipline and poor pay prospects are high ranked stressors. The conclusions also exposed that the administrators experienced, on a normal a low to moderate level of stress and this did not negatively affect their performance. This research will benefit the faculty in deal with work related stress. Keywords:Work stress, academic administrators, Stressors, job satisfaction, stress management Introduction Teaching is no longer merely hard work; it has become a highly stressful profession. The nature and organization of work makes teaching very difficult. Professors face new challenges and opportunities of the students population is increasingly diverse and needy. Demand of faculty members is develops new knowledge and skills to perform new tasks rapidly for student’s development. This often leads to over whelming pressures and challenges for the faculty, which consequently leads to conflict and stress. The aim of this research is to study the reasons for organizational stress among management teachers and to examine the correlation between stress and job satisfaction. The study will identify the main stressors and methods applied to manage them. The study was limited to teaching fraternity of professional educational institutes only and the parameters for measuring the effects of stress were subjective rather than objective. Objectives 1. To study the reasons for occupational stress among teachers of Private Institutes. 2. To study the correlation between stress and job satisfaction. Review of Literature (Gabha, 2013) Work stress is the real challenge Teachers College and the institutions they work for to. The Foundation and transforming their work environment, the kind of problems that may stress faced by teachers. It is important that your workplace is being monitored continuously for stress problems. Therefore, in this paper, we have discussed about the various career pressures between engineering colleges in the state of Punjab, India. (Chowdhury, 2012) Faculty members at the university in Pakistan is witnessing a moderate level of tension and the majority response (67%) from the tension is not a big problem in the classification of more participants in the male and faculty members are female and supports the results of the previous table, it shows a moderate level of