Determinant of job stress among employee in manufacturing industry: Kayaku Safety Systems Malaysia Sdn. Bhd / Ana Bella Abdul Halim and Nur Syahirah Ab Malek

This study focus on the determinant of stress among employee in manufacturing industry at
Kayaku Safety System Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. This study was conducted with three objectives in
order to achieve the purpose of this study. The first research objective is to identify the level
of stressor and job stress among employee at KMY by using descriptive analysis. Second, is
to investigate relationship between stressor and job stress by using Pearson Correlation
Analysis. Third, is to explore the most influential stressor towards employee job stress in KMY
by using Regression Analysis. This study was conducted by using a simple random sampling
method. The population of this study are come from 149 of non-managerial employees in
KMY. Therefore 120 questionnaire has been distributed and returned to the researcher and the
best 103 questionnaires were picked by the researcher in order to meet the standard format of
sample size that has been stated by Sekaran and Bougie (2013). The mean result of this study
shows that, Relationship are exist in KMY at the high range which this followed by Support
and Work Overload where they exist in KMY only at the medium level. Next, the result of
correlation value stated that, there are two element of stressor that have an inverse result which
is Relationship at -6.03 which fall into strong relationship categories and also Support at -
0.324 with a moderate relationship. While the correlation result for Work Overload is 0.630
which fall into a strong relationship categories. As a result of this study, it is found that, Work
Overload are present as the most influential factor toward Job Stress which then followed by
Support and Relationship.