Submitted To Dr.

Sajjad Bhmed Baig

Submitted By Bushra Rafique
Reg 19-NTU-MSBA-5005
Dept Management Sciences
Sem 1st
Topic Challenge-Hindrance Stressors and Job
Outcomes: the Moderating Role of Conscientiousness

Course Advance Research Method

Challenge-Hindrance Stressors and Job Outcomes: the Moderating
Role of Conscientiousness

Introduction:

Research in the zone of word related pressure has traversed numerous decades (Beehr and Franz,
1987). It has gotten one of the central zones of research in hierarchical conduct and applied brain
science since stress-related costs, for example, lost profitability furthermore , medicinal costs,
run into billions of dollars consistently in the USA alone ( Cynkar , 2007; Ryan and Watson,
2004). Despite the fact that the majority of the examination in this area has centered on negative
results of work environment stressors, surviving writing has proposed that specific kinds of
stressors may have positive impacts on work results (LePine , Podsakoff , and LePine , 2005;
Podsakoff , LePine , and LePine , 2007; Wallace, Edwards, Arnold, Frazier, and Finch, 2009).
As of late, the discussion about the positive and negative perspectives of employment stress has
brought about the possibility that activity stressors can be sorted into challenge or obstruction
stressors (Cavanaugh, Boswell, Roehling, and Boudreau, 2000), wheren challenge stressors are
Bwork-related requests or conditions that, albeit possibly distressing , have related potential
additions for individuals,^ and block stressors are Bwork-related requests or conditions that will
in general compel or meddle with a person's work accomplishment and that don't
tend to be related with potential additions for the individual (Cavanaugh et al., 2000, p. 68).
Challenge stressors incorporate work requests, for example, remaining task at hand, time
pressure, work scope, and duty, while obstacle stressors incorporate employment requests, for
example, job vagueness, job struggle, situational imperatives, work weakness, hierarchical
legislative issues, and asset insufficiency. Challenge stressors have been found to cause stress
that gives stimulus to accomplishment and individual development, though deterrent stressors are
known to be saddling what's more, conceivably unsafe for self-awareness and work-related
achievements (Podsakoff et al., 2007). Numerous investigations have investigated the idea of
challenge and impediment stressors and explored their association with work results (see
Podsakoff et al., 2007).However, examines that have looked into the conceivable cooperation
between these situational stress factors and character are less and less meeting as far as
discoveries. As character can be basic in deciding how a stressor is seen and how it influences
work results, we accept this line of request merits consideration. Research is expected to analyze
in more noteworthy profundity how character (attributes) and circumstance (stressors)
communicate to foresee results.

Research objective :-

Determines the relationship exist between Challenge Stressor and Turnover Intention Determines
the relationship exist between Hindrance stressor and Turnover intention Determines
consciousness moderates the relationship between Challenge Stressor and Turnover Intention.
Determines consciousness moderates the relationship between Hindrance Stressor and Turnover
Intention.

Research model:
Conscientiousnes
s

Challenge stressor Turnover intention

Hindrance stressor

Problem statement:

Today, worldwide scale of economy rapidly increased and its effects on competition that
increased. Many organization wants to earn goodwill, and profits but don’t pay to attention on
their employees. So in this situation, many employees faced stress and its effects on humans
mind that leading to Turnover Intention. But conscientiousness attribute play decisive role in
Human stress, if employees having conscientiousness attribute are more engage in Turnover
intention during hindrance stress condition.

Hypothesis:

H1: there is direct relationship between challenge stressor and turn over intentions.

H2: There is direct relationship between hindrance stressors turnover intensions .

H3: consciousness is a moderating variable between challenge and hindrance stressor and
turnover intensions .
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