STRESS MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

Harry Joy

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between stress management and employee performance. The objective of the study was to investigate the influence of stress, management, workload, role ambiguity, role conflict, effectiveness, efficiency and commitment on employee performance. The study analyzed the literature review, theoretical framework as, well as empirical studies by other authors from which the conceptual framework was built. The study was set to be informed by the role theory effect. This study thus concluded that stress management bears a positive and significant influence on employee performance. We recommend that management should design task and jobs in ways that would make for effective, efficiency and commitment and bring about improvement in the performance of their workforce and that flexible job schedules should be incorporated into human resource management strategies, policies and plan to enhance easy employee performance and commitment that will increase organizational survival.

 

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