The Impact of Job Stress on Employee Performance: Special Reference to School Teachers in Dehiatthakandiya Educational Zone

Stress has nowadays become a prevalent state in everyday human life especially among different employees at various levels of job. On the one hand stress is the motivational force and on the other side it is the cause of depression. Moreover, stress is a universal factor that continuously disturbs the life of an individual either directly or indirectly. Every individual of the society is facing stress with its different forms and impacts. Stress causes the imbalance in one’s life; it may improve the efficiency of the individual or badly affect the physical and mental health, attitude and performance of the individuals.

The traditional view point of teaching becomes change with many modernizations to the traditional school environment in past years. New educational policies forward children to grow out of relative dependence on their parents and teachers to mature as independent learners. Thus, teachers role expect lot more for face to these challenges. Therefore, need to discuss teacher performance in this decade in deeply. Currently teaching profession becomes stressful due school activities becoming much competitive in today than early with growth in other sectors in the economy. Introduction of so many innovations into school life have conspired to increase the tension in teaching. These changes expected lot more from the teachers and changing role of the teachers become more challenging because changes is continuous.

260 school teachers from various school categories were selected for this survey using disproportionate stratified sampling method. This study was the cross sectional correlation study which attempted to find the impact of job stress on teacher performance.

49.1% of respondents report that confront the problem when they are in tension at work place. That indicate positive aspect of problem solving but negative side effect is quality of teaching depend on the level of tension. In this study, the variance of the performance was 27.8% explained by stress. There are 72.2% still remaining to explain in the performance. So researchers find those variables which were not discussed so far and do a good research.