A CONCEPTUAL STUDY OF WORK LIFE BALANCE AND STRESS MANAGEMENT AMONG WOMEN EMPLOYEES OF IT COMPANIES IN CHENNAI

Having approximately a year and a half of work experience in corporate field, stress is something that we easily see around in the environment. Stress is a day to day substance that every employee undergoes. Stress, in corporate can be due to work pressure, mental stress, competition between co-workers and individuals' personal commitments. Stress begins for an individual after the training period, once the real side of the work is seen. The management plays a vital role as being a reason for inducement of stress as well as reduce the stress of an employee. The management being as a reason is because in general all the companies work for profit motives and are not employee centric, As a result companies takes in lot of projects and get deadlines from the clients of which all this is enforced on the low-level employees. Statistically speaking middle level and lower level employees face lot of stress compared to the top management. Employees are given heavy loads of work and close deadlines giving them both physical and mental trouble. Many companies force employees with over times i.e., work extra hours after day to day shift and work on weekends and day offs. Though there are many programmes conducted by Human Resource team like fun Fridays, DJ nights and other events for the employees, unfortunately none of these helps in reducing the stress. The stress can also affect the individual's family life as they exert the stress faced in office at home leading to problems in relationships