Organizational stress : causes and management

Abstract EN

This paper aims at identifying what organizational stress is, its causes and symptoms, and how to manage it.

Relevant literature has been critically reviewed in order to conceptualize stress systematically.

The main findings were that stress is an inevitable segment of our life and cannot be completely prevented since this kind of prevention is unrealistic.

On contrary, stress is a significant factor of personnel growth and performance.

In spite of the fact that stress is a prevailing human phenomenon, we have to agree that it results from a nonsuperficial interaction between life events and the way people perceive these events (Schiffrin & Nelson, 2010; Selye, 1956, 1976; Wallace, 2007).

Of course, different people have different perceptions and; therefore, have distinctive reactions to stressful events.

Even within the same individual, different reactions to stress are also probable due to some personal factors including, but not limited to, age, environment, emotion and many other factors.