In this modern technological era, employees, especially lecturers, could be expected to enjoy their work primarily due to the convenience of technology. However, stress levels seem to escalate with this technological advancement creating a plethora of unhealthy lifestyles. The result is that one of the setbacks encountered in the present day workplace is increased levels of work-related stress, which contributes to various problems both for the individual employee experiencing stress and for

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... organization for which one works. This study aimed at exploring stress levels, symptoms, and common stressors for lecturers at a certain Christian university in Zimbabwe. A modified University and College Union model stress questionnaire was distributed to 36 full-time lecturers at the university. The collected data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 16 as well as Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Findings revealed that most of Solusi University lecturers are stressed and others exhausted as indicated by a frequency of 50%. The most common stressors were increased workloads, need to hit targets/deadlines, and long working hours, as indicated by the mean scores of 2.6667, 2.6250, and 2.9167 respectively. Lecturers were heterogeneous in their response with regard to increased workloads, as shown by a standard deviation of 1.00722. Finally, there was no significant difference in responses when it comes to gender, age, faculty, as well as workload.