The Relationship between Employee’s Performance and Stress Management-An Empirical Evidence from it Companies in Greater Chennai

Abstract

The employees in IT companies predominantly face severity of stress in their workplace as well as in their home. Stress affects their employees both physically and psychologically and hinders them in proving their efficiency in their workplace. Therefore these are very important to identify the causes of stress, consequences of stress and progressive management of stress in both workplace and home. In this context the researcher intended to prove empirically the nature of relationship that exist between stress management and employee’s performance. The main aim of this research is to collect the responses regarding stress management from the employees of IT companies and measuring their performance from their organisation through the scores estimated by the organisations through 360° appraisal method. This study is based on primary data under the surgery used convenience sampling method to collect 250 responses from the employees of IT companies. The researcher applied confirmatory factor analysis and linear multiple regression analysis to prove the relationship between stress management and the employee’s performance. The study proved that individual stress management and organisational interest in stress management among the employees create optimistic impact on employee’s performance. It is further proved that an optimistic stress management leads to very good performance of the employees in their workplace.