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Abstract
Most people who work for a living spend a significant amount of their working hours at the work place executing the requirements, duties and functions of their job. Their satisfactions and dissatisfactions at work are usually carried over to the home as well; our satisfactions at work thus contribute significantly to the overall quality of our experienced lives. How people react to characteristics such as need patterns, tolerance for ambiguity, locus of control, work ethic values, abilities and skills, characteristics of the job, such as the amount of challenge it offers, the extent of autonomy one has doing the job, the extent of skills used in performing the job, and the like have direct impact on the level of stress of an individual in an organization. Characteristics of the facilitating structures at the work place such as appropriate work layout, reward systems, the initiative encouraged and rewarded.