Examination of the Relationship between Organizational Stress and Employee Performance: A Research on Staff Working on Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports

Ali Gurel Goksel,Omer Faruk Yazici,Huseyin Can Ikizler,Cagdas Caz

doi:10.5539/jel.v6n1p322

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the relation between the level of organizational stress at the staff of the Youth Services and Sports Provincial Directorate and their performance. The study group of research, Istanbul province in the Uskudar district officials operating in the Youth Services and Sports Provincial Directorate constitute a total of 96 staff, including 36 women and 60 men. In this research, “Job Strain Questionnaire Scale” that was developed firstly by Theorell et al. (1988) and adapted to Turkish by Yildirim et al. (2011) together with “Employee Performance Scale” that was developed by Kirkman and Rosen (1999) and adapted to Turkish by Col (2008) were used to collect data. In the evaluation of data as statistical analyzes; descriptive statistics, for independent groups t-test, one way analysis of variance (Anova) and Pearson Correlation test was used to determine the relationship between the dependent variables. As a result of the research; participants’ employee performance showed significant differences according to marital status variables, there were no significant differences for organizational stress. In addition, there were no significant relationships between employee performance and organizational stress of the employees were determined.

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Social units have emerged as a consequence of organization
While no significant differences were found between marital statuses in terms of organizational stress, significant differences were found between marital statuses in terms of employee performance
No significant differences were found between genders in terms of organizational stress and employee performance of employees working in provincial directorate of youth and sport

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Introduction

Social units have emerged as a consequence of organization. Each social unit displays an organization characteristic (Basaran, 1984; Yildirim, Tasmekepligil, Uzum, & Bulut, 2011). The staff working in this institution can have some psychological problems as a consequence of intense work pressure and the fatigue of everyday life (Bastug, Pala, Kumartasli, Gunel, & Duyan, 2016). Stress, one of these problems, according to Daft (1991), is defined as physical and emotional reactions caused by problematic conditions such as imposition, oppression and uncertainty. The concept of organizational stress can be defines as physical and emotional reactions caused when the requirement of job can not meet the capacity, ability and needs of the worker (Cicei, 2012; Arrington, 2008; Blaug, Kenyon, & Lekhi, 2007)

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