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The Impact ofOccupational Stress on Employees at Project BasedOrganizations (PBOs) in Pakistan

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  • Nasreen Zehra
  • Riffat Faizan

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This paper discusses the stress management impacts on the employee performances at workplace. Additionally, research evaluates the stress control's role in increasing employee motivation and overall satisfaction in project based organizations. Survey questionnaire and open-ended interviews are primary instruments used in this study. Total 112 employees participated in survey questionnaire while total 26 managers were interviewed. Findings revealed that unrealistic demands generate stress at workplace. Interestingly, we found traditional assumption of pay scale creating stress is opposed as 57% respondents have content with the pay scale thus pay scale is not the fundamental factor for generating stress. Furthermore, stress exists and operates in both micro and macro environment having equally significant impact on individuals. Their respective performance hinder due to decline in the working efficiency and quality work. Interestingly, we found that work-life balance is not effective in stress reduction but act as additional stressor for employees under chronic stress.

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  • Nasreen Zehra & Riffat Faizan, 2017. "The Impact ofOccupational Stress on Employees at Project BasedOrganizations (PBOs) in Pakistan," International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies, BAUDER Press, vol. 2(1), pages 1-9, June.
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    DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2017.251
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