Date of Award

1988

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Business Administration

Department

Business

First Advisor

Jack Kirk

Second Advisor

Charles Orme-Rogers

Third Advisor

Joseph Ancona

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation is to examine the occupational and life stressors suffered by managers and the relationship between this stress and the marital dysfunction of these managers.

The relationship between employee's work lives and their nonwork lives has undergone a number of investigations over the years . One area that has received particular attention is the area of occupational stress, its causes and effects. Occupational stress is something that is no longer suffered by air traffic controllers and top executives Lower level managers are becoming distressed because of the pressures placed on them by corporations to perform, and because of the continual, technological, economic, and social changes that are constantly occurring in the workplace. An examination of literature on work stress suggests that their exists a relationship between occupational stress suffered by managers and the quality of the managers marital and family life.

Therefore, it is hypothesized that the effect of unmanaged stress encountered in the workplace by married middle managers is correlated to the amount of marital distress suffered by these managers.

The instruments used in this study were the Occupational Stress Inventory (OSI) and the Marital Satisfaction Inventory (MSI). These tests were used to correlate the existence of occupational stress and marital distress on the manager. Data were analyzed thru the use of regression analysis. The instruments were sent to 40 male division managers employed by a Fortune 500 company.

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