organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

conrtant malfunctioning of -mesystem. It refers to the total ofthe various types of role stresses expenenced by employees intheir organiaational role, namely, Role Ambiguity, Role Stagnation.Role Overload. Role Erosion, Role Conflict, Role Isolation, RoleExpectation Conflict, Resource lnadequacy, and Personallnadequacy etc.Organ~aations are compassed of individuals and groups inorder to achieve certain goals and objectives by means ofdifferent~ated functions that are mended to be rationallycoordinated and duccted through tlme on a continuous basisIPorter and Lawlcr. 1975) Thus, at best. organisations could bedescribed as a system of roles, Roles spec~fy 'who does what, whenand where- Roles are the expectations associated with a givenposition. It does not exist by ~tself as it consists of activities, whichare related to the actlvlties of other people. For example, therelatlonshlp between a worker and the foreman in an industry -both tend to depend on each other. They have to coordinate witheach other, m order to achieve the objectives of the unit or theoganiaation. It can be said more clearly 'a role consists of a set ofnorms that explPlns ' obligations', that is, the actions which otherscan legitimately insist that m perform and 'expectations', that is.