The job stress is a relevany topic which Can useful for management studies, human resource management and organisation behaviour. Mainly focusing on mba and reserach students

1. BY MOHAMED YASIR
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STUDY ON EFFECT OF JOB
STRESS

2. Job Stress
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 Job stress is the harmful physical and emotional
responses that occur when the requirements of
the job do not match the capabilities, resources,
or needs of the worker.

3. Definition
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 Stress is the interaction of individuals with the
environment.
Ivancevich and Matteson
 Job stress is a condition arising from the
interaction of people and their jobs and
characterized by changes within peope that force
them to deviate from there normal functioning.
Beehr and Newman

4. Nature of stress
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 Stress is a state of tension experienced by
individuals facing extraordinary demands,
constraints or opportunity
 Stress can be either positive or negative.
For example, some new work situations
can bring us positive challenges and
excitement, while others are very
disturbing and anxiety – arousing.

5. Difference between Positive and Negative
stress
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Positive stress Negative stress
• Motivates and focuses
energy
• Causes anxiety
• It is short term • Can be short or long
term
• Increases performance • Decreases performance
• Feeling exciting • Feels unpleasant
• Example : starting a
new job or marriage
• Example : death of a
spouse or being
neglected

6. Emotional signs of stress
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 Depression or anxiety.
 Anger, irritability, or restlessness.
 Feeling overwhelmed, unmotivated, or
unfocused.
 Trouble sleeping or sleeping too much.
 Racing thoughts or constant worry.
 Problems with your memory or
concentration.
 Making bad decisions

7. How does the stress effect the
job
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 Stress contributes to decreased
organizational performance, decreased
employee overall performance, high error
rate and poor quality of work, high staff
turnover, and absenteeism due to health
problems such as anxiety, emotional
disorder, work life imbalance, depression
and other forms of ailments such as
frequent.

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9. Some of the factors that
commonly cause work-related
stress include:
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 Long hours work.
 Heavy workload.
 Changes within the organisation.
 Tight deadlines.
 Changes to duties.
 Job insecurity.
 Lack of autonomy.
 Boring work.

10. The Impact of Stress on the
Organization
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 Starting a new job would likely to be very
stressful if the person felt inexperienced,
unable to cope with workload, uncomfortable
around their bosses or colleagues and un-
stimulated by their work.
 The work-related stresses may be responsible
for organizational outcomes such as decline in
performance, dissatisfaction, lack of motivation
and commitment, and an increase in
absenteeism and turnover.

11. Types of Job stress
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1. Burnout
2. Acute stress
3. Fear-based stress
4. Anticipatory stress
5. Overwork
6. Workplace conflict stress
7. Encounter stress

12. How Does Stress Affect Workplace
Productivity?
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1. Absenteeism
2. Staff Turnover
3. Punctuality
4. Relationships
5. Quality of Work

13. Preventing job stress
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1. Identify the problem
2. Design and implement interventions
3. Evaluate intervention

14. Reduce job stress
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 Reduce job stress by taking care of yourself
Regular exercise is a powerful stress reliever
Talk to an attentive listener
Get enough sleep
 Time management for reducing job stress
Create a balanced schedule
Plan regular breaks
Prioritize tasks
Delegate responsibility
Be willing to compromise

15. Way to handle stress
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 Proper selection and job placement.
 Develop healthy responses.
 Resolve your concern.
 Training in stress management.
 Good organizational communication.
 Using realistic goal setting, redesigning
jobs.

16. Conclusion
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 Many employees are highly stressed, the
management is not effective in handling
employees stress situation and their
satisfaction level is declining day by day.
 If the employees are treated well and each
employee is delegated with respective work it
can reduce stress and later it will enhance job
satisfaction which will in turn increase the
productivity and employee turnover.

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