organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

The term rues8 in Enqneening implies an inherent capacityto withstand stress. In Physics 'stress' la a force, which acts on abody to produce strain. In Phys~ology, sness refers to the changesIn physioloqcal function in response to the factors causing stress.In Psychology it refers to a state of the organism resulting fromserve interactton wth the environment in Psycho - Physiology, theterm 'stress' 18 that st~mulus whlch tmposes detectable strain thatcannot be easlly accommodated by the body and so presents itselfas rrnpatred health or behav~ourDlffercnt people have d~fferent rie\vs about ~t as stress canbe expenenced from a vaney of sources. The businesspersonW~WS stress as frustratton or emotional tenslon; the air trafficcontroller sees ~t as a problem of alertness and concentratton; theblochemst th~nks of tt as a purely chermcal event.The concept of streaa was first ~ntsoduced m the life suencesby Hans Selye in 1936. It is a concept borrowed from the naturalsaences. Den&from the Latin work 'Stringere', snr?scl was