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Abstract:
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The study attempts to investigate the type and extent to which how top level, middle level
and lower level IT employees apply coping strategies to alleviate stress at their work place. A total of 600 respondents (40 top level employees, 154 middle level employees and 406lower level employees ) working in Information Technology Companies in and around Mysore and Bangalore participated in the study. The respondents completed the Coping Check List by Rao et al (1986).One-way ANOVA was employed to find out the significance of the difference between managerial levels, in different coping strategies employed by the IT personnel. The results revealed that Software employees of different managerial levels differed significantly on subscales of coping-healthy cognitive mechanisms, physical activity related coping and unproductive coping mechanisms, where lower level IT professionals, were found to possess higher scores. In unproductive coping mechanisms, middle level IT professionals were found to possess least scores and lower level IT employees possessed the highest |