| dc.description.abstract | This study seeks to examine the impact of stress on employee performance in
organizations in Uganda. Stress is a common problem across occupations and impacts both
positively and negatively on employee performance depending on its level of occurrence and
in different forms. This study will base on occupational forms of stress like role overload,
role ambiguity, role conflict and task control and how they impact on employee performance
in organizations in Uganda. Most contemporary studies highlight the negative impacts of
stress on employee performance(distress) but mild stress is known to enhance employee
performance (eustress) and the symptoms can affect employee’s energy levels, motivation
and their quality and quantity may suffer and cause anxiety, depression, absenteeism, turn
over and also mental problems among employees. In this regard stress can either be helpful or
harmful to job performance of employees depending upon its level for instance when
employees are not stressed, job challenges are limited and therefore performance becomes
low but when stress increases gradually, job performance also tends to increase because stress
helps employees gather and use resources to meet job requirements. Therefore this study is
intended to provide possible impact of stress on employees’ performance in organizations so
that employees are aware of them and managers of different organizations devise ways of
managing it among their employees for better performance | en_US |
