Impact of Stress on Employee Well-Being: A Review

Abstract

Stress has become one of the most significant health issues of the 21st century. Apart from creating physical and mental concerns in the individual employees, it endangers the overall organizational health by reducing its productivity and profitability. In today’s modern era of highly sophisticated jobs, people are living in a stressful time doing one or more than one job, that too with lots of efforts to meet the expectations of the job profile, which creates high amount of tensions, anxiety, anger, fatigue, fretfulness or irritability etc. These situations effect the efficiency and commitment of the employees towards their jobs. Thus, it has become essential to systematically research the causes of stress and some strategies to cope up with the same. Several studies have been made by the researchers across the globe, to get in-depth insights of the occupational stress. Work-stress literature of the past three decades shows that large number of researches has been done during the recent decade, which shows the importance of this literature in the management discipline. This study is an attempt to review some of the major findings of the work-stress literature and the study reveals that Burnout plays the role of mediator which significantly impacts the employee’s well-being. Regular and periodic motivation moderate the stress level among the workforce. Occupational Stress can be managed by adopting suitable stress coping strategies.

Keywords: Occupational Stress, Well-Being, Motivation, Burnout, Stress Management

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