Impact of Job Stress on Employee Job Performance: A Study of Developmental Sector of Chitral District

  • Gulshan
  • Shafeeq Ahmad
Keywords: Stress, Job performance, Employees, Developmental Sector

Abstract

The study examines the impact of stress on employee job performance in developmental sector
working in Chitral region. The paper is based on a modified questionnaire administered to 120 development
sector employees in Chitral district and their response was measured for forty variables. The study shows that
administrative staff, male employees, age group of 20 to 30 years, posts graduates, married employees and
employees who have work experience of having 1 to 5 years feels stress mostly in their job. The study further
shows that most influencing factors of stress in job are the role ambiguity, conflict among colleagues, rapid
change in global network, working with untrained employees, lack of time for leisure, diversity and complexity
of tasks. After descriptive statistic and correlation analysis the results show that there is in inverse relationship
between employee job performance and job stress.

Published
2019-04-17