“IMPACT OF STRESS MANAGEMENT AMONG THE EMPLOYEES OF BANKS”

Abstract

The productivity of the work force is the most decisive factor as far as the success of an
organization is concerned. The productivity in turn is dependent on the psychosocial well being
of the employees. The banking organization, have been facing greater challenges in terms of
technological revolution, service diversification and global banking. Stress is unavoidable on the
part of the employees as the systems, procedures; techniques are getting complicated with the
use of advance technology. Every employee cannot cope with such rapid changes taking place in
the jobs. This will lead to arising of stress among employees. Stress can affect one‘s health, work
performance, social life and the relationship with family members. The stressors and its
consequences are to be understood at individual and organizational level. An attempt has been
made through this research paper to know the reasons of stress among the bank employees and
the ways used by employees to cope with the stress generated at workplace The aim of this paper
is to provide insight that will help the reader further improve his/her management competencies
in managing stress in the workplace.
Stress is a fact in our daily life. When a person needs help, it means the person feels
physically and emotionally disabled. Most people believe that their capacity and capabilities are
so little to encounter high level of stress. Today, with progress in all respects, human is facing
new challenges in many different fields as if progress in turn creates new problems. Over a
century, the nature of working has been changed widely, and still these changes are in progress.
Following these changes, number of illnesses has been increased, morality and human aspects
are faded and new problems are occurred every day, so that we are facing job stress which called
“illness of the century”