organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

same time he also feels that he must". While &ehr 8s Ncwmon(1978) thus define "Job stress as a condrtion wherein job-relatedfactors interact with the worker to change (disrupt or enhance)hrs/her psychological or physiologrcal condition such that theperson (mind and / or body) is forced to deviate from normalfuncuoning. They suggest that stress arises from conditions,whrch may be regarded as either positive (enhancement) ornegauve (disruption) thereby decmg the integrity oftheindrmdual. A person will be vulnerable (1.e.. Stress prone) in anysltuatron rn whlch a motrve of some importance to his integrity isthreatened r.e., 11 questions hrs abiliv. A strmulus must not onlybe of a glven intenslty to arouse anxiety and a glven higherintensin. to lead to stress, but ~t must also be 'of a gwen k~nd' for apart~cular person, related to hls personal~ty.To summanse, the folloulng conclusrons may be drawnregardmg stress rn an organrsatron:Smss is a srate of the indindualIt rnvolves an remction between the individual and theorganmoon.