Job stress and satisfaction among academic staffs in public universities: An empirical study in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

• Main Authors: Adnan Jawabri, Ayman Alarmoti, Mohammed Ali Mohammed
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Growing Science 2019-04-01
• Series: Management Science Letters
• Subjects: Job stress; Work Family Conflict; Academic staff; Performance; United Arab Emirates (UAE)
• Online Access: http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol9/msl_2019_95.pdf

The purpose of this study is to measure the role of job stress among the academic staff of the public universities of UAE. A survey was conducted among 350 academic staffs of the public universities across UAE, concerning the trends of job stress and satisfaction and a possible relationship between these two variables. Primary data analysis reveal that the public universities showed different directions for varying forms of job stress. Moreover, five types of stressors were found to be significant for the academic staff at the universities and when they were tested on job stress, the results revealed the significant impact on job stress. More specifically, pay, and growth stressors as well as work-related stressors were found to negatively influence job stress for the academic staff. Future research of time series analysis can be conducted to understand the trends of stress under different situations over time for academic staff.