People from all walks of life suffer from stress in one-way or the other. Employees stress is the growing concern for organizations in today's environment. When stress becomes excessive it often affects work performance, which has significantly lead to burnout and turnover. It is necessary to recognize and address the causes of stress and effectively manage prolonged stress. Since it should be an ethical and legal decision for an organization in managing stress. Stress is expression of

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... l mental and physical reaction to stressor. The objective is to analyze various pressures that trigger job stress, identifying the causes and outcome, stress is not always negative it may also bring the best out of an individual at times, excessive stress may result into burnout. HR can play an active role in managing it. As outlined in the previous sentences that the level of stress at work place should be controlled since, too much of stress leads to burnout, HR can play a very vital role in the organization to curb the level of stress by reducing and identifying the root cause of the stressor by implementing stress audit program by measuring the stress in-terms of cost which will help to quantify the decrease in level of job performance.