A STUDY ON STRESS AUDIT OF BANK EXECUTIVES OF AMBERNATH

As financial institutions, banks have varieties of schemes and functions to be implemented and operated. Lot of banks with number of branches are working in the field of banking industry today in the national and global working areas .The nationalized and private sector banks are handling lot of problem every hour every day while implementing and operating series of schemes in addition to normal transactional activities. Today’s financial business is very complicated and institutions dealing with this are facing lot of competitions in order to make their existence worthy.’ Go and let go’ and ‘face and flee’ rules find their justifications in such scenes. Being under high stress level and failing to cope up with the set game of target and achievement gaps and other complex nature of demands and expectations from job ends ,so many executives of different ranks have opted for premature voluntary retirement in the recent past years. Some of them have already been allowed also. Although this is not a great concern considering that new generation executives are coming up with lot of fresh energies and talents to refill their vacancies, still it is a concern of stress issue in some form or other which requires due attention. This being just a reference of a general instance as perpetuated by the senior managers about their feeling of stress situations while reporting to the higher authorities, there are reasons to believe that lot of other complex stress situation factors arise for each and every bank executives quite often. In order to identify the stressors and eliminate their intervention in the business area, causing loss of executives’ enthusiastic mentality, irritation, altercation, bad business relations, dereputing brand image, decreasing organizational performance and growth, an overall retardation in the face of competition and market expectation unless proper safeguard is taken, has prompted the modern stress- conscious top management of the financial institutions and banks of studying and recording stress factors infecting the executives and the banking system as a whole. This has also led them to identify and locate stressors, assessing their depth, damaging capability, formulating preventive action and treatment facilities in this age of participatory and welfare outlook side by side with organizational development and growth concept. Here comes the stress audit issue with the objective of broadening the quality of individual service unobstructed from any corner projected towards continuous team and group quality development .This outlook and its implementation will surely hold good for individual as well as organization health system, satisfaction and further innovative improving action. In today’s world, many persons actually lead the life of a caged animal, often a tormented caged animal. They are plagued by irritations which they cannot fight or from which they cannot run away. They fall victim to hypo kinetic disease, to tension headaches, still neck, back pain, ulcers, heart trouble and obesity. It has been found that with certain exercises the hypokinetism may be tackled well. Every one may keep oneself untouched by stress if some such actions are taken with the positive intentions. When we are on for a personal as well as group or organizational effort to avoid hypo kinetic effect out of situations stressing us, we should also do what we can to stop such irritations before they start. First of all we should know in this context what actually it is that troubles us. A few thousand years ago, a short time in the history of a species, man lived in caves. He had the life of a brute animal. He was physically involved in the struggle for existence. So were his wife and children. Like all animals, their bodies were endowed with an amazingly complex and efficient preparation for action. In an instant their bodies were ready to fight or to flee. In either case they responded with a physical action. They have the same physiological structure. When they are faced with such a situation, their body prepares to act. But unlike their ancestors, they neither fight nor flee. The rules of the civilized society prevent this, and usually they do nothing but sit and seethe. This constant suppression of a natural physical response puts an unnatural strain on their system. This has been termed as stress after facing and feeling the effects and searching out the reasons.