The Effect of Role Stress on the Employee's Well-being: A Study in the Pharmaceutical Companies in the City of Izmir

Abstract

The aim of the study is to explore whether there is an effect of “role stress” on the employees‘occupational well-being. Using a sample of 180 sales representatives working in the pharmaceutical companies in Izmir, the present study set out to examine the relationships among role stress and the employees‘occupational well-being. For the purpose of this research, data for each variable and its sub-dimensions were collected by using the role stress (Rizzo et. all, 1970) and occupational well-being (Schultz, 2008) scales. The results obtained from the proposed models in which role stress dimensions, in turn, were hypothesized to have a significant correlation with each occupational well-being dimension demonstrate that intrasender conflict has a significant negative correlation with professional self-acceptance and managerial ambiguity has a significant negative correlation with occupational growth.