OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LABOR PERFORMANCE:

A CASE STUDY ON ECOART STRUCTURE AND PRODUCTION

Abstract

This work is scoped to perform field work in Ecoart Structure and Production company to identify the factors that contribute to stress at work, and way to solve it. In this context the study notes that occupational stress can be caused by several factors present daily in organizations, damaging the working environment, productivity and so the company's profit. Stress index refers to the control of absences at times when workers are the scheduled time of the workday. The concept can also be better understood by the sum of the periods in which employees of a given organization absent from the work, including delays within their normal working hours. The method adopted for the realization of the research was descriptive. The typology of the adopted research covered three aspects: on the objectives treated is a deductive research; as the problem of approach was qualitative and quantitative; on the technical procedures, was literature. Through the survey it was observed that the valuation of intellectual capital can be a proposal for the reduction of occupational stress, as the successful application of this theory for the treatment of stress is to assimilate possible decision-making for managers of the resource area humans. At the end of this research are addressed recommendations that may be in guidelines for the management of people in organizations for the effective management of the causes and consequences of occupational stress, through the enhancement of intellectual capital.