Stress and Its Relationship to Employees’ Productivity

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INTRODUCTION Productivity is a critical factor and concern by both public and private sectors of the economy. The relationship between work stress and employees' productivity is examined in this paper. Stress is a reaction of an individual towards the environment and could be something external and related to the environment. An individual could experience stress if he/she reacts negatively towards the environment, including stress at workplace. LITERATURE REVIEW Stress among the worker is known to result in lower productivity behavior such as absences, leaving early, mistakes, lack of job concentration, accidents at workplace and lower output. Work stress is a major issue in the occupational safety and health aspect as well as organizational wellbeing since it risks the employees’ health and organizational success. Financial stress is perceived to be one of the most important sources of psycho-social stress because so many of the basic activities of daily life are associated with personal financial resources and their management. Financial problems often affect an individual’s level of work productivity and personal relationship. High level of financial stress resulted in low productivity, increase in absenteeism and other problems like alcoholism, drug abuse anxiety and occupational health outcomes¹. This study identifies the impact of financial problems and work stress on employees’ job productivity. They are frequently cited in the literature as causes of workplace troubles. Employees’ financial problems and stress at workplace are costly challenges to the employers, because less attention is given to the work due to being too focused on work stress and financial problem reduces job productivity. All the negative forces and issues onto the individual as well as organizations show us that something has to be done in order to minimize work stress.

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