Job Stress - Employees Performance and Health: A Study on Commercial Bank in Bangladesh
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bank, commercial, employees, Health, Performance, Stress
Abstract
Stress is an inevitable feature of work and personal life. Some organizations are low stress, healthy environment, whereas others are high-stress environments that may place their employees' health at risk. The experience of orga-nizational justice and fairness is emerging as one contextual factor at work that leads to a positive low-stress work environment. This study is an initiative to explore how does job stress influences on work performance and health of employees in contemporary commercial banks in Bangladesh. It is statistically significant that stress has a positive relationship with employee's performance. Study also reveals that there is an adverse relationship with stress and health of employee's wellbeing in commercial banks in Bangladesh. Long working hour and workload have perceived as top most stressors of both public and private commercial banks in Bangladesh.
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