Stress in the workplace is becoming the most common complaint of the late 20th
century employee. It is a costly, pervasive phenomenon in work organizations and many
studies have been carried out in the west to investigate this area of human concern.
The objective of this study is to examine the occupational stress level of the IT
professionals in selected companies an d factors that cause occupational stress among
them. It was hypothesize d that there were significant differences between occupational
stress level and the demographic variables of the IT professionals. The demographic
variables involved were 1) age, 2) sex, 3) education background, 4) work department,
and 5) annual gross salary.
The population in this study consists of the IT professionals from 5 companies in the
Klang Valley. Questionnaires using six-point Likert-type scales were used to measure
the variables. The data collected were analysed using the SPSS. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the demographic profile of samples. Independent t-tests were
employed to compare the significant differences in the level of occupational stress for
gender. The ANOVA was used for hypotheses testing the significance differences in the
level of occupational stress for other demographic variables
