Elucidation on stress among migrant workers

The paper explores the symptoms of stress, causes of stress and sources of stress among the migrant workers in Bangalore City. The study further tries to understand the coping strategies of stress, management offering of facilities to overcome stress, utilisation of those facilities by the workers and workers expectation from management related to coping with stress. The data is collected from the migrant workers working in the Bangalore City. It was collected from migrant workers working in various industries using a well-structured questionnaire. In this study convenience sampling is used and the sample size for this study is two hundred and twenty six. It is found that restlessness is the major symptom of stress, and anxiety has major impact on the health of the migrant workers. Group behaviour is the major difficulty faced by the respondents. Vacation and holiday trips are considered as the means of relaxation and they revealed that they tried to be away from stressful environments to cope up with stress. Workers expect open communication and proper recognition from management to motivate themselves and handle the stress.