Impact of Workplace Stress on Employee Performance An Empirical Investigation

Abstract

Stress in individual is defined as any interference that disturbs a persons’ healthy mental and physical well being. It occurs when the body is required to perform beyond its normal range of capabilities. Stress is the way that you react physically, mentally and emotionally to various conditions, changes and demands in your life. Stress when built into an organizations’ structure due to Changes in working practices, such as the introduction of new technology or the alternation of organizations’ structure, new technology or the alternative of targets can be refereed as Organizational Stress.High levels of stress can affect your physical and mental well being and performance.Stress less life enable employees to execute their present and future related roles and aids in developing their capabilities for better organizational performance. Though the measure of organizational performance are many ranging from financial to behavior ones many aspect like job satisfaction etc have been focused. The present paper attempts to analyze and determine the relationship further the impact of workplace stress on Organizational goals and employee performance. The study is based on responses sought from 100 executives from various departments of a private sector undertaking located in North India. The questionnaire relating to workplace stress, employee performance and organizational goals was administered to sample population and the findings indicate that Workplace stress has a definite impact on Employee performance and hence hampers Organizational goals.