THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL STRESS AND JOB PERFORMANCE OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES IN SRI LANKA

It is important to recognize organizational stress since workplace stressors have a bad impact on employees' mental and physiological health. The main stressors after beginning a career are linked to employment, environment, and people. Stress is the body's way of responding to interaction with any stimulus in the environment. As a result, the purpose of this study is to look into the relationship between organizational stress and job performance in the context of executive officers at Sri Lankan national universities. Three independent variables were chosen as the organizational stressors namely tasks-demands related stressors, role-demands related stressors, and interpersonal-demands related stressors. The population of this research was all the administrative and other executive officers working in national universities of Sri Lanka. The sample size for the study was 240 administrative and other executive officers and the sample was selected employing a simple random sampling technique. Data was collected from the sample using a structured questionnaire. Gathered data were analyzed utilizing several statistical techniques including descriptive, correlation, and multiple regression analyzes. The result shows that tasks-demands related stressors, and role demands-related stressors have negatively and significantly affected the job performance of the executive officers at the national universities in Sri Lanka while interpersonal-demands related stressors have no significant influence on job performance. Based on the important findings, this research recommends undergoing stress management training sessions and other stress management practices for focusing executive officers of National universities in Sri Lanka.