A link between career plateau and job stress: Study through literature survey

In the present scenario of business process reengineering, most of the organizations are opting for organizational restructuring. As a result, majority of employees look this restructuring as crumbled career progression. Almost all employees experience career plateau during their career progression path. Career plateau is like a shock to many employees as it could have a negative effect on employee performance. Resultant, employees’ performance starts deteriorating and most of the time causes stress. Plateaued employees feel more stressed as they have nothing to offer new to their job as well as organization. This leads to employees reach a hierarchical plateau and curiously seek new opportunities outside the organization. This Hierarchical plateau could be a potential cause of talent attrition in the organization. Due to the consequences of this phenomenon, plateau becomes an epicentre of concern for the managers and organizations. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact this career plateau have on the Stress level of employees’ working in that organisation, on the basis of available literature and to find out the role of career plateau on increasing stress.