A Study on the Impact of Psychological Hazards on Employees’ Performance

Abstract

Psychological hazard at the workplace may arise due to different aspects of the work environment or the way work is organized; and it may cause mental illness, physical injury or physical illness. Working conditions in an organization can cause stress to employees. In the present study, the researchers have aimed to identify how psychological hazards affect employees’ performance at the workplace through a survey conducted on a representative population. The findings show that more than half of the respondents are unhappy with the quality of work at their workplace and they believe that their workload is high too. Several employees are completely unsatisfied with the amount of attention that their superiors pay to their stress. Many employees feel that their organization does not help them to deal with stress at all. Based on the impact of stress and administration, a large percentage of employees believe that their stress affects the productivity of the organization to a great extent and they also feel that because of this stress, they are forced to take leave from the organization. Psychological stress affects their personal lives as well. Assigned tasks are the major source of stress at workplace and the other sources of stress are role demands and organizational leadership. Only few employees think that their main source of stress is interpersonal demands.