Abstract:
In today’s competitive global environment, employee productivity is an essential element of a
company’s success. Employee productivity can be significantly hindered by high levels of
stress experienced in the work environment. Stress is a universal element and persons from
nearly every walk of life have to face stress. Employers today are critically analysing the
stress management issues that contribute to lower job performance of employees. The main
aim of the study was to evaluate stress and its effect on employees’ productivity.
This study is conducted on a company named: Resource Dimension situated in Islamabad.
Descriptive survey was adopted as the research design. Simple random sampling was used for
a size of 100 employees. Questionnaires and interviewswere used as a data collection
instrument. From the results obtained, it was evident that there were many stress factors that
the respondents endured, and the inquiry proved that stress had an effect on productivity. The
majority of the respondents reported that there is a lot check and balance on employees, and
employees have to face work-family conflict. Employees felt that the organization did not
care about them was a reflection of huge dissatisfaction that undoubtedly lowered
productivity.
