TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One:
Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Objectives of the Study
1.3 Research Questions
1.4 Statement
of Hypothesis
1.5 Scope
of Study
1.6 Significance
of the Study
References
Chapter Two: Literature Review
2.0 Introduction
2.2 Sources or Causes of Stress
2.3 Stress and Personality
2.4 Effect of Stress
2.5 Managing Stress
2.6 Summary
and Conclusion
References
Chapter Three:
Research Methodology
3. 1 Introduction
3.2 Research Design
3.3 Area of Study
3.4 Population of Study
3.5 Sampling Procedure
3.6 Method of Data Collection
3.7 Method of Data Analysis
3.8 Validity
3.9 Reliability
Reference
Chapter Four:
Result and Discussion
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Test of Hypothesis
Chapter Five:
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation
5.1 Summary of Study
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations
Bibliography
Questionnaire
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Employee
performance has always being paramount in the life of any organization which
has led many business organization to put in place many factors that can boast
the performance of employees' welfare career development, e.t.c.
Despite all the
effort of management to improve employees performance, stress has being found to be
one of the major hindrances to employees' performance. Hence, various
definitions have been giving to stress, which can be described as' follows:
Stress can be
defined as any action or situation that places physical and psychological
demands upon a person.
It can also be described
as the demand on an individual that tax or exceeded his adjective capacity
body's responses to pressure.
Lazarus 1966,
defined stress as a largely perceived Phenomenon which only the individual
experiencing the stress can identify the specific set of factors which are
causing the stress. From this definition, it is only the person experiencing
the stress that knows the factors stressing him. Since it is the person involve
in stress that can say that what causes stress or what stresses Mr. A may not
cause stress for Mr. B. stress a medical term was coined by an Austrian born,
Hans Selye; Selye was a professor at the University of Montreal, in 1974, Selye
studied body reactions to almost all conceivable type of- severe, injuries,
diseases, poisons, or unusual work demands from his work/study, he observed
that there were common features to those reaction. In addition common specific
changes, he also noted that there were some other "non-specific" reaction
which he gave the name “STRESS". Stress is any force that put a
psychological or physical function beyond its range of stability producing a
strain within the individual. Stress has been recognized as one of the
commonest problems facing people all over the world irrespective of age, sex,
race, status and religion. Truly everyday life need a level of arousal to be
worthwhile and when the arousal is optimal "stress" is at its best.
Beyond this point, it becomes a problem to the individual who would become over
arousal. (The Psychologist 1999).
Researchers also
define stress as a physical, mental, or emotional response to events that
causes bodily or mental tension. Simply put, stress is any outside force or
event that has an effect on our body or mind.
Akeredolu (1999)
explained stress as the normal difficulties one encounter in getting to school
or work, the difficulties encountered in buying fuel at the station and the
difficulties faced over the loss of loved one. The effect of stress.
The Uncertainty brought about by job insecurity
constitute a basic source of stress in the work place.
Poor financial and
social motivation tends to generate difficulty in work place. The normal difficulty of role over load and role
under load remain a factor imbalanced in work place job assignment.
The problem of
unhealthy and unfriendly work environment is a stress factor to be considered.
Poor promotional
and earner advancement structure 111 work
organization consist a strong stress basis.
Poor leadership
style and it attendant problem of job uncertainly constitute work place difficulty. The impacts of stress
on job performance remain.
1.2 OBJECTIVES OR PURPOSE OF STUDY
The objective of
this study is as follows:
1. To identify the
sources of stress in an employee
2. To also identify
the symptoms of stress in an employee
3. To determine the
effect of stress on the performance of an employee
4. To make
appropriate recommendations to how stress can be managed.
1.3 RESEARCH
QUESTIONS:
1. Does stress
brought about by job insecurity affect job performance?
2. Poor motivation
factors in work place influence workers performance?
3. Does workers
productivity be influenced by stress of poor motivation factors?
4. Is the problem of
role over load and role under load a factor imbalance in work organization?
5. Can the difficulty of unhealthy and unfriendly work
environment influence job performance?
6. Can poor
leadership style brings about stress in work place?
STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS
1. Ho:- Stress brought
about by job insecurity do not affect job
performance
H1: - Stress brought
about by job insecurity do affect job
performance
2. Ho:- Poor motivational factors in work place do not influence
workers performance
H1:- Poor
motivational factors in work place do influence workers
performance
3. Ho:- The stress of
role overload and role under load do not affect
job performance
H1:- The stress of
role overload and role under load do affect job
performance,
4. Ho:- The difficulty of
unhealthy and unfriendly work environment
do not influence
workers productivity.
H1:- The difficulty of
unhealthy and unfriendly work environment
do influence workers productivity.
1.5 SCOPE
OF THE STUDY
Under normal
circumstances, a research is supposed to cover a particular area of study and
as a result of that this research is not exception to that effect. This
research is devoid of certain constraints and circumstances and so financial
inadequacies was one major area that brought about setbacks to the smooth
running of the research work. The second constraint of this research was the
lack of getting the correct information because the responses of most
respondents were hostile and in some cases negative even some are not even
ready to interact with you while some of the respondent deliberately gave wrong
information. Time was another major constraint as the researcher had to combine
both research that required moving around, lectures and examination at the same
time.
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
This study will be
of great importance to all
organizations and there employees. This study intends to bring to the notice of
the organization that reaction to stress varies from individual and thus,
afford the organization an insight into how much stress they can effectively
handle and to also recommend stress coping strategies for the organization and
her employees.
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