Organizational stress factors that affects performance and a study

The subject of this study is learning organizational stress factors, the reasons thatcause these factors and strategies to cope with organizational stress factors. And also we lookfor relationship between performance and organizational stress.In the literature review section, we mentioned about stress, organizational stress, andcoping with stress. In the application section, results of a questionnaire which was conductedon 168 personnel were discussed in the light of relevant literature.According to the results, we found that organizational stress play important roles onperformance of employees. People, who are working with low performance, perceive morestress at work and explain more stress symptoms than who works with high performance.According to the results of the study, people who take part in query accept our notion80 percent. We also found that ways of coping had a great deal of importance in stressexperience.Relationships between job experience and perceived job stress had changed accordingto the experience levels. Mid-experienced personnel perceived more stress than lowexperienced ones. And the most experienced personnel, perceived less stress than mid-experienced personnel. But the stress scores of the most experienced people were not as lowas the scores of low experienced people. The other demographic variables had no relationshipwith perceived job stress. In the case of stress symptoms, educational level had an importance.Personnel, whose educational level was higher, had less stress symptoms.These results were discussed in the light of the relevant literature and somesuggestions were made about stress management.Key Words: Stress, anxiety, depression, organizational stress, anger, coping withstress, organizational stress factors, military stress.