According to the World Health Organization, organizational, or workplace, stress can affect an organization's ability to be competitive within its market. When workers are stressed, they are less likely to be healthy, motivated, and productive.
Organizational Change
Change in an organization can cause stress for employees that are unwilling to accept the changes. Such behavior can then cause stress for their supervisors and coworkers.
Task Design
Tasks that are mundane or unpleasant and a workload that is either too heavy or too light can cause stress in workers. Lack of control over workload and work-pace is also a source of stress.
Management Style
Workplace leaders can cause stress when they classify subordinates' views as unethical, incompetent, or irrelevant. Leaders who do not include workers in decision-making or who communicate poorly also cause stress.
Interpersonal Relationships
Lack of support from coworkers and supervisors, harassment, and a lack of procedures for dealing with workplace issues are sources of organizational stress.
Work/Life Balance
The emergence of new technologies--laptops, smartphones and wifi--has lead to a lack of division between work life and social life for some workers and is a source of organizational stress.
Physical Conditions
Unsafe or unpleasant work environments can cause workplace stress. Examples of unpleasant conditions include work environments that are too noisy, too hot, too cold, or that exhibit poor ergonomic design.
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