An analytical study of stress management on executives in lucknow city & new perspectives for understanding stress in organizational context

• Author: S. Athar Mahmood/Gaurav Bisaria
• Position: Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, Integral University, Luck now/Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, Integral University, Luck now
• Pages: 158-165

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Introduction

Modern life is full of problems of all kinds. These problems range from completely personal to those arising out of organizational issues. Whatsoever the nature of problems, it takes its toll on human beings and the direct result is what is termed as stress. STRESS is the word, which is becoming very popular these days among the corporate houses. There is increase in stress due to development of cities, coming up of big companies, more work and more production. It is being said that stress can kill one person a day. Stress is used in Engineering which means pressure of an object over another and was introduced in Social Sciences by HANS SELYE in 1936.Stress came in limelight around 1990's and accelerated in 2000. Stress is defined as the condition that results when person-environment transactions lead the individual to perceive a discrepancy, whether real or not, between the demands of a situation and the resources of the person's biological, psychological and social system. In simpler words, stress is the result of adverse situations that a person faces continuously, the most likely result of which is negative in nature.

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Stress can develop one into a on-performer. Studies suggest that 1 in 5 people suffer from stress. It is generally being said that one can fight very well with stress when he is in the age group of 18yrs. to 40 yrs. and after 40 yrs. the power of fighting with stress goes on decreasing. According to Prof. Hari Shanker Sharma of Neurobiology (at the Department of Surgical Sciences, University Hospital of Uppsala University Sweden) Indians have to face hardships as years are wasted for completing a simple task and till 40 yrs. they are just able to bring things on level and when time comes to show performance they might have crossed 40 yrs., which leads to low performance and hence stress. According to Corporate Persons, peoples are taking retirement at the age of 45 yrs. due to excessive stress and are moving to peaceful or religious place where they can have peace of mind or can forget the tensions by devoting themselves to God.

'Stress' means physical or mental over-exertion that disturbs natural physiological balance of the body. Stress is the "wear and tear" of our bodies' experiences. Stress affects our health as well as our working performance. Job Stress can be due to environmental factors like political, economic and technological. There is no single level of stress that is optimal for all people, what is distressing to one may be a joy to another. One cannot know stress until and unless they have experienced it and when you feel it then some can take it while others cannot. It is difficult to relate stress with the nature of business i.e. there is more stress in I.T. Sectors or in Banking Sectors and not in others but this is not true as more things depend on organizational culture and the nature of bosses

Theme

- Research was conducted among working class, both males and females, to understand the reasons and impact of stress.

Research methodology

Sample Size: 200, Population: 100 Males & 100 Females, Data Collection...