Impact of Stress on Employees Performance in Public Sector Universities of Sindh

The main objective of this study was to measure the “Impact of Stress on Employee Performance in Public Sector Universities of Sindh.” In every organization'sperformance of the employee is a debatable subject, to determine stress level in public sector universities and to predict employees'performance and exploratory research was conducted, by considering reward structure, and working environment as an independent variable and employee performance as a dependent variable. Stress felt by the employee during work was a major focus of study, The study findings reveal that stress is directly related toemployee performance if stress level changes it also bring change in employee performance. Stress impact positively and negatively as result, increase in performance were seen when employee considered it positive, employees became enable to give their performance in a better way if stress is positive, and if negative stress is thereit can inadequately affect the routine and job of the staff. It`s observed that mostly stress impactsnegatively on the performance of employees and it causes physical, psychological, behavioral and social problems.Research results revealed that reward structure has a positive and significant effect on employee performance; similarly, there is an important contribution of the working environment on employee performance too. Stress is an indispensable factor to study, the working environment and reward structure havea massive effect on employees as a factor of stress. A quantitative research technique was applied to conduct this study. A survey questionnaire was designed to collect responses. 5-point Likert scale used to measure the data. Responses were collected from 310 respondents to test the model relative to the impact of stress on employee performance, data of employeesrelating to all categories of management in public sector universities of Sindh.