Stress not only has its adverse effects on employees, but also creates a strong impact on organization as well. The article focuses on the effects of stress, and tries to explain the measures to overcome that, which result in facilitating a stress-free environment.

Stress is one of the major problems faced by the organizations in present day's scenario. The dictionary meaning of word "stress" is a state of affairs involving demand on physical or mental energy.

According to the Stress Management Experts, Stress is a physiological response of an individual to an external condition. At one or the other point everybody has to suffer from stress. Stress can be either individual or organizational. Individual stress is the effort of an individual in personal level and the Organizational stress is the effort of an individual at organizational level.

Stress can be either positive or negative. Many studies proved that the stress creates more physical as well as mental health problems like reduction in potential life and weakness. Sometimes stress can act in a positive way enabling an employee to improve his performance.

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