Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

With the increase in globalization and multinational company culture, the expectation of organizations has led to increase in the amount of efforts which may lead to certain amount of dissatisfaction. With this increase in the amount of efforts and dissatisfaction, the employee ends up with a situation based on stress. Exceeding stress levels have led to an increase in the attrition rate because of problems of long working hours, the long shift, clients with expectations, unsatisfied bosses, deadlines, performance, multi-tasking, lack of a work-life balance, which contribute to increase the employee stress levels. The main aim of this study was to determine the impact of workplace stress on employee performance. For this study only secondary sources of data were utilized and an analysis was done to study the impact of stress. At different hierarchies, the stress levels were studies at various parameters such as workload, role conflict, underload, supervision, career development, physical environment, repetitive work, work-family conflict, co-workers, organizational climate and staff development, job environment and adaptation, work overloading, role conflict and vagueness, mental reaction, behavioural reaction, physical reaction and overall job performance as the parameters to study impact of stress. The study shows a negative impact of stress on employees. There exists a relationship between stress and performance demonstrated through this study.