organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

Sometimes the nature of the job, such as jobs involving shiftwork, machine paced tasks or hazardous environment may resultin more stress than others. Workers who spend many hours dailyin front of the computer screens also report high stress levels, saysSchuller (1975).Sources of stress ma! also differ based on ones position Inthe organlsation Executive stressors may mse from the pressurefor short-term financ~al results or the fear of a hostile take-overattempt At the supenisor). level, srressors lnclude the pressurelor qual~ti and customer semlcc, numerous meetings andresponslb~l~r\ for the uork of others Workers are more likely tocxperlencr the stressors 01 lou status. resource shortage, and thedemand for a large volume of error free work Thus the h-pe ofuork or job also causes stress It ma! be mentioned here that anvgiven event of stress anses e~ther from a s~ngle cause or from aconstellat~on of interaction causes or smssorsThe factors contnbutlng to these three types of stressorshave been listed as follows.