Stress is a psychological reaction to the demands inherent in the stressors that has the potential to make a person feel tense or anxious because the person does not feel capable of coping with these demands. The build up of stress is based on individual to individual, people have the tendency to handle even difficult situations but we must all understand that no two people are the same either in the organisation or life situation.

In this times of economic challenges and life problems we must all agree that its better we take care and understand that the avoidance of stress in organisation should be the norm, but we also agree that it will not come easily, there is much work to be done to ensure that we all live in a good stress free environment.

The causes of stress both for employees and management is a great concern for all some of the causes such as job insecurity,workloads etc can be avoided intentionally and strategically. Any serious organisation should be aware that the implication of stress is very serious for the organisation, its affect the company such that the productivity of the organisation will reduce, performance from employees is very slow and employees lack the concentration to work as expected of them. In terms of revenue loss to companies stress contribute a lot if not checked properly.

Business owners most ensure that they put in better strategies to avoid stress or reduce it to the lowest.