Abstract:
This research is identifying the impact of employees stress on job
performance in the public sector organization. Special reference to Chief
Secretary Cluster of Eastern Province. Undoubtedly in every organization, a
small group of the working population suffers from stress. Public sector
organizations employees are normative commitment. The purpose of this
study is under government scheme for recruitment of unemployed graduates,
3641 Graduates were recruited as Programme Assistants to the North East
Public Service during 2005, but at presently only 638 employees are working
in the Eastern province. Impact of high stress entails low organizational
commitment, which directly contributes to voluntarily termination of
employees and may lead to low overall firm’s performance. Objective of the
research is to identify the factors influences on stress in the organization, to
identify the impacts of stress on job performance, to measure the which
factor is highly influence on job performance and to reduce the employee
stress and enhance the job performance through various activities.
Conceptual frame work included individual stress, organizational stress and
environmental stress. Selected sample is 122 programme assistant based on
the five years experience. The data analysis included the univariate, bivariate
and multivariate analysis. The findings of the study show that all three
variables have negative relationship with job performance, particularly
organizational stress highly impact of job performance. As per the multiple
regression analysis, 58 percent of the variance is found in the job
performance. Further research found the rest of the 42 percent of the
variance. Some recommendations are suggested to improve their job
performance
