Assistant professor, Department of International Business and Commerce, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu
Online published on 26 June, 2013.
Stress can either help or hinder one's effectiveness depending upon the stress level. When the level increases, personal effectiveness increases but, when the stress crosses the optimum level, the persons’ effectiveness declines. Too much tension in the string also yields very poor result and may break the string. A group can also be a potential source of stress. These group stressors can be categorized into three areas. They are lack of group cohesiveness, lack of social support and intra individual, interpersonal and inter-group conflicts. Among individual factors contributing to stress are personality, life and career changes and lift trauma. Job stress is becoming a day to day problem for many of our life. It's all because of the fast world evolution. Everyday we have to cope with the fast life and change ourselves into machine like objects. There is no time for relaxation, no time to take self care, no time to spend with our own family, no time to play with our children. All such agony's can accumulate and form a stress. Major causative agent for stress creation is our work place. Many of us always think about our office and sometimes bring office work to home also. Then there is no time for mind relaxation, so automatically a stress is created.
