Organizational behavior in relation to stress and organizational culture

Abstract

This article aims to study the relationship between Workplace Stress and Organizational Culture among employees of the National Educational Unit "El Limón" in Maracay, Aragua. This research is quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive, field-based, and cross-sectional. The population and census-type sample consisted of fifty (50) employees of the National Educational Unit "El Limón" (30 teachers, 10 administrators, and 10 workers). Two instruments were used: one was the ILO-WHO Workplace Stress Questionnaire, developed by Ivancevich & Matteson. This allows for the identification of workplace stressors at the level of a company, department, section, or specific group. The second instrument applied was the "Psychosomatic Problems Questionnaire" or CPP developed by Hock (1988) and adapted by García-Izquierdo Sáez Navarro and Llor Esteban (1993); this allows us to determine the degree to which the worker suffers from the symptoms associated with stress, allowing us to estimate the level of stress inferred by the worker. The results obtained show that different cultures have an effect on the dimensions of work-related stress in both public and private educational organizations.