Human Resource Practice and Management Workplace Stress, Job Satisfaction and Stress Reduction

With the advent of globalization, constantly evolving business models, progress in Information Technology, changing environment and lifestyles, the term ‘stress’ is so very often used in our lives today and is yet enshrouded by a thick veil of conceptual confusion and divergence of opinion. Stress is viewed as a crucial and pervasive component of both personal as well as contemporary work life. An increasing concern about stress appears to be well founded. Cost arising out of occupational stress to business enterprises and industry has been well documented in the recent past. Mounting research evidence proves beyond dispute that stress has a dysfunctional impact on both individual and organizational outcomes. The emergence of computer and information systems has been perhaps the single biggest factor impacting organizations and their functioning in the last few decades. The proliferation of computers and information systems in organizations has generated an increased demand for information systems professionals to support technology-intensive transformations needed to compete successfully in a dynamic business environment.