The present study was conducted on 210 managerial personnel working in different private sector organizations. The purpose of the study was to examine the role of life events stress and work culture on job satisfaction. The statistics employed are Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test and bivariate correlation. The results of bivariate correlation indicate that job positive and total positive stress are positively correlated with satisfaction with management and overall satisfaction (job and management), whereas personal positive stress is significantly positively correlated with overall satisfaction. Results of t-test indicate that there is significant mean difference in satisfaction with job, satisfaction with management and overall satisfaction between high and low job positive stress, personal positive stress and total positive stress. The difference is found significant for satisfaction with management in the case of high and low work culture, namely, obligations towards others.

Job satisfaction is a crucial phenomenon in present organizations because of its diverse effect upon organizational effectiveness and individual wellbeing. Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job, or affective reaction to one's job. According to Locke (1969), job satisfaction is the function of the perceived relationship between what one wants from one's job and what he/she gets therefrom.

A large number of studies documented that job satisfaction is positively related to various organizational variables, for e.g., organizational commitment, performance, cohesion, citizenship behavior and other extra role behaviors (Crammer, 1996; Currivan, 1999; and Lok and Crowfold, 1999). Due to this reason, it becomes vital for an organization and its employees. At the personal and organizational level, there are several variables which may also affect the feeling of satisfaction at workplace, such as work-family conflict, injustice perception, social support, immediate changes in personal or vocational life, stress and work culture. Among these variables, stress and organizational culture are more frequent and important predictors of job satisfaction.

Stress has become a common phenomenon of our daily work life. It is a strong predictor of various personal and work-related outcomes. In The Encyclopedia of Stress, Flick (2000) defines stress as "real or an interpreted threat to physiological or psychological integrity of an individual that results in physiological and/or behavioral response." It is a response to challenging events, as an event that places demand on the individual, an environmental characteristic which poses a threat to the individual, and a realization by the individual that he/she is unable to deal adequately with the demands placed upon him/her.

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