How can Stress Affect Employee Performance? An Empirical Study of Japanese Business in Thailand Industrial Sectors

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Wanida Wadeecharoen
Wattanasak Mung-ngoen

Abstract

This study has focused on stress at work and its correlate with employee’s performance in Japanese business organization. A sample of 196 were randomly selected across Thailand industrial sectors mainly come from automobile and its assemble business approximately 36% located in Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) include Chachoengsao, Chonburi, Rayong. The result show that psychology and behavioral stress have correlated with job performance while physical symptoms has no significant related. Work hour has correlated with work stress at 0.01 level of significance. Obviously, work hour has a negative correlated relationship with job performance at 0.05 level of significance. The highlight of the study implied that work stress has a negative impact on employees’ performance, however, increase in stress level at the optimum level make employee exerts better performance.   

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