organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

An individual is confronted with conflicting demands from'within' one of his role sets.An individual is unclear about (or rejects) the expectationsand behaviours appropriate to any one or more of his roles,which may also involve problems within and between hisvanous role sets. These difficulties often occur whenmanagers (and others) move into new roles, or when theirexlstlng roles are modified in some way as a result oftechnological or organ~sational change. (Srilatha, 1991).To Sum up, organ~sahonal stress may be awed by -Factors external to the organlsauon, such as the social.pol~ocal and economlc that affect the organlsat~onalhomeostasrs wthin the larger ennronment. i.e., the macrosystem.