Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2014

Occupational Stress: A Conceptual Framework

Suraksha, Dr. Kuldip S. Chhikara

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Occupational stress is a growing problem that results in substantial cost to individual employees and the organizations around the globe. Due to the impact of globalization the influence of stress in this era of high technology and global competition is found to be increasing at faster rate and due to which the Stress studies are enticing more and more attention nowadays. The organizations, to make themselves efficient in utilization of resources, have gone through entire restructuring, layoffs, downsizing, and mergers. The financial crisis and recession of 2008 around the world further contributed in increasing higher levels of stress among employees, particularly in the corporate context. The aim of this paper is to analyze the various stressors, consequences and models of stress through an extensive review of literature concerned with stress in general and occupational stress in particular.

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Suraksha, Dr. Kuldip S. Chhikara Occupational Stress: A Conceptual Framework Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue.9 September 2014

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