Impact of stress on level of Motivation of employees: A correlational study

Stress is an inevitable part of life which has turn out to be a foremost concern of the present era as it hampers employees ’state of well being which ultimately results into degraded performance of organization. Various psychologists and physiologists have defined stress in a different ways. In layman term stress can be understood as pressures and tensions which people feel in day to day life. Stress is a sweet poison which helps you to meet the challenge; however beyond certain limit it cause damage to moods, health, productivity and relationships causing your level of motivation to decline. Motivation is the nucleus of organization and an important function of supervisor to get the task accomplished by the employees. The present paper aim at firstly to know the comparative level of stress in manufacturing organization among the managerial and non-managerial employees and secondly its relationship with motivation. “t ”test and Pearson correlation test was employed to know the difference in level of stress between managerial and non-managerial employees and relationship of stress with motivation respectively.