CAUSES AND COPING STRATEGIES FOR STRESS AMONG BANK EMPLOYEES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO COIMBATOREDISTRICT.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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Human resources are the most important assets of an organization. Assets make things possible, people make things happen. All the activities of any enterprise are initiated and determined by the persons who make up that institution of the many factors which impinge on the management task and influence its accomplishment, the human factor is probably the most significant . Hence, there is an urgent need to understand the human factor, which is assuming increasing significance in a modern organizational setting. Work pressure is a part and parcel of all work. But excessive pressure can lead to stress , which undermines performance , is costly to employers and can make people ill.Banking industry is an expanding sector and an important constituent of overall economic system. Even the employees working in this banking industry are not exempted from stress.Moreover, banks are not providing the learning opportunities needed for up- dating the intelligence of the senior employees. Moreover target fixation, heavy and tireless work, peer –pressure, unwarranted punishments ,in-human attitude , lack of job-security, and compulsory transfer from one place to another, working late nights, careful and diligent work , unattainable targets , answering the annoyed customers, make the bank employees feel reluctant frustrated, worried and stressed . Now a days banking industries have started realizing that stress management important. The banking institutions have to help the employees to reduce stress in their job, so that, we have to provide fitness band wagon, wellness programs, health education programs with the realization that a healthy employee is a productive employee.

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