A relationship between technostress creators towards job satisfaction among employees at Forest Department in Kuching, Sarawak / Nur Syuhada Muhamed Bustaman

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between techn-stress creators towards job satisfaction among employees at Forest Department in Kuching, Sarawak. Five type of techno-stress creators which were chosen which comprised techno-overload, techno-invasion, techno-uncertainty, techno-insecurity and techno-complexity. For the purpose of data collection, a questionnaire on Techno-stress creators based on Wei Qui is (2013) study was used while a questionnaire on job satisfaction was adapted from the Minnesotas (2012) study. A total of 120 questionnaires were circulated, and out of which only 103 return. The data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences Software (SPSS) version 20. Pearson Correlation was performed on the data in order to determine whether there was significant relationship between techno-stress creators and job satisfaction. The findings showed that there was a relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable. Techno-complexity showed the strongest contributor of variance in job satisfaction at Forest Department in Kuching, Sarawak with the value of (r=.658 and p< 0.01). Several recommendations were proposed for the betterment of the organization and its employees.