Strength of factors responsible for job stress and its’ impact on workers’ performance

It is general prediction which is proved by research that employee feels stress while working in an organization which is caused by different factors that carries negative impact on workers ’productivity. Stress can be described as psychological unsafe feeling which comes into existence when employees ’skills, abilities and working conditions not according to job requirements. Researchers have explored different factors those are ^responsible for stress in organizations and having harmful effect on workers ’productivity. In this study seven factors of stress: Qualification mismatch, workload, job and family equilibrium, boss attitude, job autonomy, job security and career ambiguity are observed. Main objective of this study to examine was how strongly these factors are responsible for stress and how strongly stress effect workers ’productivity. To achieve objective structured questionnaire used to collect information from 146 employees of different organizations from different sectors located in different cities i.e. Islamabad, Faisalabad, Lahore and Toba Tek Singh. Consequently study revealed that all factors are not equally responsible for stress and stress distorts workers ’productivity.