Selected problems of occupational stress in the organisation

The aim of the deliberations in this article is presentation of chosen issues associated with occupational stress in the organisation. A hypothesis was put forward: occupational stress becomes a regular phenomenon and reaches excessive levels, affect the performance of the employee, his/her satisfaction and well-being, as well as lower the involvement of employees and, consequently, force them to resign from work. In the beginning deliberations concerning stress definition. Then occupational stress and types of stress in the workplace were presented. For a better illustration the most important factors affecting occupational stress were shown. The subject matter of a successive part was the causes and symptoms of stress at work in the organisation and to the types of stressors. The final part deals with more important conclusions of the deliberations.