The Effect Of Work-Related Stress In The Workplace

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Work related stress has become a major challenge for the organizations worldwide due to its immense occurrence and its adverse effects on employees work behavior. It is generally accepted that employees are the most important and valuable persons for the organizations due to their major role in running the organization effectively and successfully and cannot be treated like machines. The employees who experience less stress are more cooperative and productive members of an organization but when the organization ignores its employees’ stress ,needs and demands, then the results are employees’ absenteeism, low productivity, lack of motivation and job satisfaction which eventually effect the employee work behavior and lead him/her towards counter-productive …show more content…

They took the sample of 55 medical house officers of District Abbottabad and the analysis of their study showed an inverse relationship between job stress and job performance indicating that there is high job stress in medical house officers which results in low job performance.
Work-related stress has negative impacts on employees’ productivity also. In a study, "The effect of stress and satisfaction on productivity (2010)”, conducted by Halkos and Bousinakis on 425 employees in the private and public sector concluded that increased stress leads to reduced productivity and increased satisfaction leads to increased productivity.
Similarly many researchers investigated the relationship between work stress and counterproductive work behavior of employees. For example Hira and Anam in their study entitled , “ The Impact of Job Stress on the Counter-productive Work Behavior (CWB), A Case Study from the financial Sector of Pakistan,2012” concluded that the job stress among employees lead them somewhat towards counter-productive work behavior and there was a sufficient positive correlation exist between job stress & employee …show more content…

This makes it difficult for them not only to attain but also retain a job. All these problems create great stress for employees with disabilities. Although stress affects negatively on employees’ and organizations’ productivity as indicated by various studies and needs a serious notice from employers, policy makers, researchers and government etc. But unfortunately no research has been conducted till now related to PWDs’ stress at

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