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The present study analyses the effect of jobcontrol at work on psychological stress for Indian Middle-Level Managers (MLMs)of a public telecom organisation. 210 MLMs from different parts of India haveparticipated in the survey. Three dimensions of job control visualize controlover work (CoW), control overworking time (CoT1) and control over working days (CoT2), were considered. The validity and reliability were confirmedusing Factor and reliability analysis. A Binary Logistics Regression (BLR) wasperformed to find the effect of job control on behavioural, somatic and cognitive stresscontrolling for age, gender, and experience. The Odds Ratio andAdjusted Odds ratio were calculated. 56% of the participants reported sufferingfrom psychological stress. Results showed that CoT1 had a significantassociation with somatic stress while CoT1 and CoT2 with cognitive stress. LowCoW and low CoT2 were associated with high psychological stress amongmiddle-level managers while low CoT1 to low psychological stress. The findingsindicate that job control have both positive and negative relationships withpsychological well-being depending on its dimension. Increasing job controlcannot entirely ensure the psychological well-being of employees. Therefore, organisations need to assessdifferent dimensions of job control carefully before providing work flexibilityto employees.