Abstract:
Employee performance is a topic which has gained a significant attention and that has been proven
vital for the sustainability of the business. Numerous factors can be identified to govern the employee performance
in a business organization. The objectives of this paper are to investigate the idea of occupational stress, which
has become ingrained in everyday lives, in an organizational setting, and to see if there is a link or interaction
between stress and employee performance in one of the leading apparel companies in Sri Lanka. In addition, it
identified certain factors which contribute to work stress among executive level employees of selected company.
The data was collected using a simple random sampling technique, with a sample size of 163 executive level
employees. To analyze the data, 100 employees were chosen from a total of 163. To collect the data, a structured
questionnaire was used, and the results were analyzed using SPSS version 28.0. The data was analyzed using
descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, and regression analysis. The six dimensions were used to
assess occupational stress such as role ambiguity, role overload, role conflict, role overload, lack of managerial
support and poor peer relationship.
