QUESTION 1
WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY STRESS? DISCUSS THE SOURCES OF STRESS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL, GROUP AND ORGANISATIONAL POINTS OF VIEW.

Work stress is recognised world-wide as a major challenge to workers health and the healthiness of their organization.
Workers who are stressed are also more likely to be unhealthy, poor motivated, less productive and less safe at work. Their organisations are less likely to be successful in a competitive market.
Stress can be brought about by pressures at home and at work. Employers cannot usually protect workers from stress arising outside of work, but they can protect them from that which arises from work.

Stress may be defined as "a state of psychological and / or physiological imbalance resulting from the disparity between situational demand and the individual's ability and / or motivation to meet those demands."
Dr. Hans Selye, one of the leading authorities on the concept of stress, described stress as "the rate of all wear and tear caused by life."
Stress in an organisation can also be refer to us the response people or workers may have when presented work work demands and pressures the are not matched to their knowledge and abilities and which challenges their ability to cope

Sources of Stress,
Factors that cause stress are called "Stressors." The following are the sources or causes of an organisational and non-organisational stress.

1. Causes of an Organisational Stress

The main sources or causes of an organisational stress are:- Career Concern : If an employee feels that he is very much behind in corporate ladder, then he may experience stress and if he feels that there are no opportunities for self-growth he may experience stress. Hence unfulfilled career expectations are a major source of stress. Role Ambiguity: It occurs when the person does not known what he is supposed to do on