Objective of the report

Understand job stress and its nature,
Understand theoretical viewpoints of stress,
Discuss how it has affected employees in United States and Japan.

1.Introduction
Modern businesses are complex and highly competitive consequently employees, management of the organization as well as organization itself under contentious strain to accomplish higher targets (Rothmann et al, 2005). In recent time's organizations around the world restructuring, outsourcing and downsizing, leaving its workers feeling stressed undervalued and insecure (Rothmann et al, 2005). According to three studies done by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's " Stress at work" report, between 26% -40% of employees think that their jobs are stressful. (Global Cosmetic Industry, Sep 2005)
Stress at work place has been investigated for many years (Michailids et al, 2003) and lately it has become a major concern due to its effects on employee performance as well as the......

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Title: Job Stress
Approximate Word Count: 3758
Approximate Pages: 16 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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