The effects of work stress on performance of the intensive care unit nurses (a public hospital case study)

Nowadays stress is one of the most important organizational and individual problems which affects workers work success and satisfaction in a negative way. The aim of this study is while researching the effects of individual and organizational stress sources to the labour force performance, contributing the literature prevention of these adverse outcomes. Job stress is a situation that employee can't deal with the needs and demands of the work. In the study with the job performance the work success and satisfaction is meant. The effects of job stress on the organizational performance are alienation, absenteeism, employee turnover rates and work accident. The research shows that the intensive care unit nurses' stress level is high and they mostly affected by the general environmental stress sources. As long as nurses' stress level increases their labour force performance increases too. Additionally the study proves that as work performance increases job satisfaction increases too.