STRESS MANAGEMENT AMONG BANK EMPLOYEES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

ABSTRACT

Workers are expected to be proactive, capable of functioning in a competitive environment, and skilled enough to assume tasks. Current issues with the banking industry include a worldwide recession, slowdown in emerging countries, and intense competition. To complicate matters, several banks are restructuring their development plans as a result. Banks are integrating and increasing their merger and acquisition departments in order to compete on a global and regional scale. In this case, the merger and acquisition activities of the company have a big impact on employee stress levels, because this may lead to layoffs. A merger forces employees and their families to learn a new way of working. The reason for doing this research is to discover the many stressors that are associated with elevated stress among employees. Also, the article discusses employee attitudes and work-related behaviour up to the point when it mentions employee discipline. Although much of study has been done on workers’ views about strategic issues like mergers and acquisitions, there is always space for further investigation. The findings of this study will provide practical recommendations for government, banking, and academic scholars on how to include the views of employees in merger and acquisition transactions.

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