Abstract:
Employees are the backbone of any organization. They are the most precious and
important asset all the assets of any organizatron. Job stress is a part of employee life
that should be consider very seriously. So, the employee job stress becomes one of the
top priority issues in the banking industry. Therefore, the study aims to identify the
level of job stress of bank managers in state and private banks in Sri Lanka with
reference to Galle district. Managers and assistant managers who are working in Bank
of Ceylon, Peoples bank, Commercial bank and Sampath bank in Galle district were
the population of the study. Further study regression result highlighted statistically
significant impacts of role ambiguity, role overload and role conflict on stress of
managers in banking sector Sri Lanka.
