Regular practice of yoga and meditation not only helps employees to manage stress but also helps create a peaceful and cordial environment to work and produce better results. Staff training, organizing formal meetings, rewarding people for their performance and extra-curricular activities are some of the means by which organizations can make employees feel valuable and enable them to overcome stress.

According to the late Dr. Hans Selye, "Stress is the sum of all the non-specific effects of factors that can act upon the body." Anything that affects the body and causes stress is called a stressor. Stressors could be internal as well as external. Internal stressors are those which cause stress due to something that happened in the past. Environment, people, food and other external factors form external stressors. Depending upon the circumstances, beliefs, perceptions and conditioning, different persons react differently to the same stress factor.

According to Dr. Murray Mittleman of Boston's Beth Israel Medical Center, working under a high-pressure deadline is the main reason for stress development in any corporate. A stressor stimulates the body's sympathetic nervous system and places all the major organs under stress. This stress has to be discharged in some way or the other; else it will cause illness and premature death.

Stress deteriorates the performance of employees which results in low turnover rates of the company. There is a direct relationship between pressure and performance. It can be explained with the help of an "Inverted U" graph (See Exhibit 1).

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