Thiruvananthapuram, on October 1. A study on stress in mid-level executives from 96 companies in India and Kenya showed that tensions in the workplace might also a cascade of negative impact on gross national product (GNP).

Mukunda V. Professor, Faculty of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM K), led by the study was conducted, said that stress Business Line offers negative effects on health, with consequences harmful to individual productivity.

Research at the USA revealed that the opportunity cost of stress because of the offer amounts to no less than 10 per cent of gross national product of the country. Other studies, under the direction of medical experts have shown that 50 to 70 per cent of all forms of physical illness directly attributable to an increase in the burden.

Indeed, if the teacher is a pointer to the nature and intensity of pressure at work because of competition from increasingly in a global economy.

The study, in which a Kenyan scholar, M. Charles M. Zakayo, also participated, found that the causes of the significant jobs in the Indian and Kenyan Manager at the frequent failure final decisions and strategies, poor career growth, mismanagement of time, removes anger and frustration at the workplace hostile and the trade union movement.

While the average in the two nurseries in India and Kenya has suffered from high stress at work, there were differences in the relative stress.

A greater proportion of medium-level leaders of India lived stress compared to those in Kenya.

The study focused on 95 companies from both countries and had 480 managers at the central level, as respondents.

Its main objectives was important causes of stress at work, a relative measure of stress, and to discover if Manager, stress management techniques practiced muted at best manage the situation of these steps.

According to the professor, activities of each agency are all interrelated and lack of mutual understanding between staff would have the effect that stress for all, regardless of the hierarchy.

But a high level of flexibility in their policies and regulations tend their managers at the central level a certain degree of freedom for the tasks assigned to them.

The study suggested that more organizations in India and Kenya are conducting programs to reduce stress jobs not only for their executives at the central level but also all other employees.

Two factors will implement the different environments in both countries. They are (1) The sexual harassment in the workplace is much higher in Kenya, and (ii) trade unions were hostile India curse.

Effective time for planning and management can help reduce stress, “said Prof..

The study found that managers had a clear plan for the use of their time, before the real work begins, and as much as possible, glued to plan their time, had less stress than the others.