Stress at work place is common in today’s
era, but a little stress is always good for the work place it
helps one to work harder and achieve its work goals, but
as the level of stress increase it starts causing negative
impact on mental and physical health of an employee.
Stress can be positive and negative; while the positive
stress is good the negative stress is not. Mainly stress
arises as a result of work burden, time barred task,
hectic schedule, when there is more job demand on the
employees as compared to the amount of ability of that
person to meet those demands. Generally stress is
denoted as a deviation from normal functioning of body
and mind It should be borne in mind that since stress is
multifaceted phenomenon there is no simple solution
available for the same, therefore action must be taken to
eliminate as many sources of stress one can, Work
related stress is not only limited to the working area but
it also impacts the personal space of an employee, this
study aims on how an employee should dealt with the
stress due to work pressure or any other reason at work
place. This study also helps to know more about causes,
symptoms and effects of stress. Many a times the change
in working environment also leads to stress.
Generally Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is used by
many researchers to measure the level of stress. They
conduct various survey and questionnaires to measure
the same like, L. Harris Poll gathered information on
2,387 respondents in the U.S
Keywords : Stress Management, working environment, work burden, Employer, Employee.