The purpose of this study was to verify the relationship between job stress and organizational effectiveness of the sport and leisure instructors. More specifically, this study was to examine (1) the mean difference between the solo-economic character...
The purpose of this study was to verify the relationship between job stress and organizational effectiveness of the sport and leisure instructors. More specifically, this study was to examine (1) the mean difference between the solo-economic characteristics of the sport and leisure instructors and job stress and organizational effectiveness respectively, (2) the relative effects of job stress on the organizational effectiveness.
Subjects of this study were 386 sport and leisure instructors who worked at the public and private sport facilities which were located in Metropolitan Seoul and Kyonggi Province.
The questionnaire developed by Cooper and Davidson(1982), Ivancevich and Matteson(1987) originally, and which was revised by Lee(1997) into Korean was used to measure the job stress of the sport and leisure instructors. It consists of 9 items.
The organizational effectiveness was assessed with a 12-item scale developed by Beehr(1978), Lazarus(1978), and Lee(1984) originally and revised by Kwan(1991). This scale was designed to assess subjective ratings of the organizational effectiveness variables such as job satisfaction, job performance, and organizational commitment. Responses were made on a 5-point scale.
And the statistical methods for the analysis of this study were t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson`s correlation, and multiple regression analysis.
The conclusions of this study were summarized as follows:
First, there was statistically significant differences between the socio-economic characteristics of the sport and leisure instructors such as school career and sports and job stress.
Second, there was statistically significant differences between the socio-economic characteristics of the sport and leisure instructors such as school career, income, and sports and organizational effectiveness.
Third, the job stress of sport and leisure instructors was affective on the organizational effectiveness. That is, the communication variable affects on the job performance and job satisfaction, and the job characteristics variables affects on the organizational commitment.