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  THE IMPACT OF STRESS AT WORKING ENVIRONMENT Figure 1: Workplace Stress,  (Corporate wellness magazine , 2021) Workers' mental health is also harmed by workplace stress, with an increased risk of anxiety, burnout, depression, and drug abuse disorders. Stressed workers are more likely to indulge in unhealthy behaviors such as cigarette smoking, alcohol and drug misuse, and bad eating habits. Stressful situation can occur when an employee realize that requirement of a situation is larger than what they can handle and when those situations continue for longer period (Welford, 1973). COMMON TYPES OF STRESS Acute Stress:-                                                                                                        ...

EFFECT OF TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT ON  EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY                Figure 1: (Manju and Suresh, 2011) An organization's most valuable asset is its employees. It contributes to the organization's growth. Employee training broadens their knowledge base and familiarizes them with new skills and approaches. If an employee understands how to contribute to the organization's growth, it will have a significant impact on the company's output or goal achievement. Training and development programs make this feasible. According to (Manju and Suresh, 2011), training serves as an acts of intervention to improve organization’s goods and services quality in stiff the competition by improvements in technical skills of employees. Thus organizations need to invest in continuous employee development in order to maintain employees as well as the organization success (Khawaja and Nadeem, 2013). KEYS FOR EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT v ...

     Figure 1 ( Kumar, D., Hossain, M.Z. and Nasrin, M.S., 2015) Motivation is the inducement of a desired behavior with in subordinates with a view of channeling their efforts and activity to achieve an organization’s goals. He adds that it’s an internal drive to satisfy an unsatisfied need in an organization and is also known as an incentive action. (Balunywa, 2005) TYPES OF MOTIVATION Figure 2 (Benabou, R. and Tirole, J., 2003) 1. Intrinsic Motivation: - individual motivated from his life system 2. Extrinsic Motivation: - individual motivation is stimulated by external factors TYPES OF REWARDS FOR EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION      Figure 3 ( Killeen, P.R., 1985) 1. Financial Rewards:-  Financial rewards are identified as the most functional tool for managers to motivate employees in order to influence their behavior positively to attain organization goals. E.g.:- Cash, Bonus, profit sharing and share options 2. Non-financial Rewards: - Rewards enhance the ...