INFLUENCE OF JOB STRESS ON JOB SATISFACTION AMONG SELECT PRIVATE SECTOR BANK EMPLOYEES IN COIMBATORE
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Dr G.DEVARAJAN
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Stress is the reaction that people take to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them. It arises when they worry that they cannot cope. Stress is a demand made upon the adaptive capacities of the mind and body. Stress is basically the impact of one object on another. There are three terms which are used synonymously to denote this phenomenon : stress, strain, and pressure, however, there are thin differences in these terms. Stress is a term basically used in physical sciences which means pressure of one object on another. From physical sciences the term stress came to medical sciences and finally to social science. As per the medical explanation , the term stress is the body’s general response to environmental situations. Selye, who has done considerable research on stress , has viewed stress as the “non – specifically induced changes within a biological system.” It is non – specific because any adaptation to a problem faced by the body. Irrespective of the nature of the problem , is included in stress. As defined by Selye (1996) “Stress is a scientific concept which has suffered the mixed blessing of being too well known and too little understood”. Pollock (1998) defined “Stress is something which is not naturally occurring but is a manufactured concept which has now become a social fact”. Strenberg (2000) definition is “A person’s response to the presence of some things in the environment that causes him to feel challenged in some way called stress
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Unique Paper ID: 146781
Publication Volume & Issue: Volume 5, Issue 1
Page(s): 870 - 874
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