Examining the impact of stress and coping strategies on the performance of women entrepreneurs

Abstract

Entrepreneurs have important part in economic growth. Today, majority of the women have begun their own venture for reasons through the support of government subsidiaries and their own offering toward the business. Therefore, it is obvious that the entrepreneurs should do multidimensional task and significantly in a creative way so that they can operate their business for long time in the society. When operating business, women entrepreneurs experience many issues since they should balance business and family activities at the same time. In addition to current reviews, the present paper provides better knowledge about the issues undergone by them, which results in stress among the women entrepreneurs, how they are overcome with the stressful situation by adopting coping techniques. As per convenience sampling technique, the researcher had selected samples of the total women entrepreneurs in Tamil Nadu for achieving validity and reliability of the information collected. In each category various stressors chase them in their personal and professional life. Given that many of the respondents in their study have limited entrepreneurial experience, it is understandable that these gaps can lead to entrepreneurial stress. The authors also recommend that the high levels of stress associated with interpersonal relationships be addressed by identifying the causes of these stressors in the workplace. Women entrepreneurs adapt their coping strategies to the level of role conflict they experience, and these changes have different impacts on their success.