Impact Of Occupational Stress On Employee Performance In Banks-An Empirical Study

Abstract

Occupational stress is a much commented upon phenomenon of the 20th and now the 21st century society. In the present scenario, employees are struggling with the growing, and often conflicting, demands of the workplace and family life. The lack of work-life balance results in a worrying increase on stress which could result in employee burn-out. It can cause even committed employees to lose motivation and become disillusioned. In this direction an attempt was made to study the banking sector and the occupational stress, the employees have undergone in this sector because this is one important sector where sweeping changes have taken place which puts pressure on the employees to deliver more and more sophisticated nature of work.