A Critical Analysis of the Association of Stress with Knowledge Enhancement with Special Reference to IT Professionals in Chennai

The emergent issue which is considered as greatly significant in IT industry is the
employee’s stress which is developed as a result the situations subjected to develop and
upgrade their knowledge with the technological development. Thus the stress which the
employees come across based on their knowledge issue is highly challenging to overcome
and sustain in the IT industry. This problem has to be studied as stress causes great
unpleasant effects to the employees and also becomes a threat to the organisation. This paper
attempts to analyse the association of stress with respect to knowledge enhancement and thus
illustrates the impacts of stress experienced by the IT employees. This study also enables us
to identify the causative agents of stress related to knowledge enhancement adopting
descriptive analysis. The convenience sampling was used to collect the data among the IT
employees. For this study around 150 IT employees were met in and around Chennai and has
subjected to chi square test, correlation analysis, anova which were used to test hypothesis.
The results imply the reasons for stress on knowledge enhancement and have provided
suggestions that the organization and the employees could adopt to prevent stress and to
combat when subjected to stress.