LEVEL OF STRESS & PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY - AN IMPACT STUDY DURING COVID 19 PANDEMIC PERIODS

Abstract

COVID 19 declared pandemic by the World Health Organization caused by a new strain of corona virus which was raised out of Wuhan city of China in December 2019. Nobel Corona Virus infected people may have different symptoms, the common symptoms have cough, fever, sputum, breathing difficulty , loss of smell and loss of taste. COVID – 19 was mainly transmitted to each other when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets / aerosols par-ticles containing the virus. It has created an unstable environment for individuals, business activates like manufacturing, trading, transporting and resources of employees, communica-tion in multiple ways. Covid – 19 caused a loss of business activities and increase profes-sional stress of employees. Because of its infectious nature it has affected a large number of economic activities. There are around 51, 39, 55,910 cases globally out of which 62, 49,700 lost their lives, In India only 43094938 cases are reported out of which 524002 lost their lives till April 2022.The present study aims to analyzing those factors which affect the productivity in the corporate model of private sector industries, study the mental health of employees, level of stress and performance level of employees pre and during COVID 19 pandemic periods. Employees C were assessed through standard performance and Stress apprecial Scale Covid 19 situation. The result was assessed statically and find significant that Covid 19 has Impact on Performance and Stress level.