Determination of the factors that generate work stress and their impact in engineering

Abstract

Engineering departments are part of backbone of the companies thus mental health of their workforce is mandatory. Work stress is an affectation that inevitably will be present at one point in every engineer’s carrier, in spite of that, if this state of tension is present for long periods of time, it can be harmful for workers mental health. Engineers with high levels of work stress tend to be badly unsatisfied with their duties output and in some cases such as those with burnout, this syndrome can evet affect their physical health. Studies show that in Mexico 75% of the workforce present a high level of work stress meanwhile in ciudad Juarez Chihuahua, 25% of the manpower could be affected by the same syndrome; thus, this study set as objective the determination of the work stress level among the engineering workforce as in addition to the key stress generators, their sense of their labor satisfaction and how these two corelate with each other. Making use of the stress level questionnaire from the

International Organization of Labor (ILO) & the World Health Organization (WHO) applied through an online survey and using a Likert scale it’s possible to determine the stress severity and which are the key factors that sow the seeds of stress. Out of the revealing results obtained it was possible to identify the leadership and work environment as the principal stress causes, yet the stress level is considerably low, and the labor satisfaction is noticeable high.  Utilizing a correlation analysis, it was determined that the stress level has a big impact on the employee’s satisfaction, in simple words, the higher the work stress level; the lower the work satisfaction will be and vice versa.