*Research Scholar, Faculty of Management Studies, SCSVMV University, Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu
**Head & Research Guide, Dept. of Management Studies, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Thandalam, Chennai
Online published on 20 February, 2017.
In psychology, stress is a feeling of strain and pressure. Small amounts of stress may be desired, beneficial, and even healthy. Positive stress helps improve athletic performance. It also plays a factor in motivation, adaptation, and reaction to the environment.
Stress can be external and related to the environment, but may also be created by internal perceptions that cause an individual to experience anxiety or other negative emotions surrounding a situation, such as pressure, discomfort, etc., which they then deem stressful.
Humans experience stress, or perceive things as threatening, when they do not believe that their resources for coping with obstacles (stimuli, people, situations, etc.) are enough for what the circumstances demand. When we think the demands being placed on us exceed our ability to cope, we then perceive stress.
A very much overlooked side of stress is its positive adaptations. Positive psychological stress can lead to motivation and challenge instead of anxiety. The effects of experiencing eustress, which is positive stress, versus distress, which is negative stress, are significant. While colloquially lumped together, the various types of stress should be treated as separate concepts. Distress causes a slowing of working pace while eustress can lead to motivational states such as flow.
Selye proposed that there are four variations of stress. On one axis, there is good stress (eustress) and bad stress (distress). On the other is overstress (hyperstress) and understress (hypostress). The goal is to balance these as much as possible. The ultimate goal would be to balance hyperstress and hypostress perfectly and have as much eustress as possible. It is extremely useful for a productive lifestyle because it makes working enjoyable instead of a chore, as seen with distress.
The purpose of this paper is to determine how the soft competencies of an Employee of an organization, specifically optimism and stress, can affect project success.
The below discussed are,
STRESS EVEALUATION TYPES
TYPES OF STRESS
MEASURING STRESS
TECHNIQUES IN STRESS RELIEF
STRESS PREVENTATION
EFFECTIVENESS
STRESS MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
Stress, Stress Management, Stressors, Relief, Employees, Work
