Impact of Stress on Employee Performance: Case Study on a Leading Apparel Manufacturing Company in Sri Lanka

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.