Stress, health, and job performance: What do we know?

This manuscript reviews the literature on and discusses the relationships among stress, health, and job performance in the workplace. All organizations expect employees to perform work-related tasks and activities that help fulfill the organization's goals. Job performance behaviors often occur in stressful situations and can be a stressor. The links among stress, health, and job performance are reviewed in the context of relevant theories and models. The bidirectional aspects of the relationships among: stress and job performance; performance and stress; health and job performance; and job performance and health are discussed. Job performance and stress are ubiquitous in the workplace and while research into the antecedents and consequences of both has provided some understanding, there is more to be gleaned by future research that includes both physiological and psychological measures which also takes the biopsychosocial context into account.