The Garment Industry is of major importance to the Indian economy as it contributes substantially to India's export earnings. Thus employees working in the above sociological context of working life are expected to be affected by the general acceleration of the pace of life, contributing to work intensification and constant time pressure. Managers play a key role in reducing the significant sources of stress and shaping the future of employees. Thus the above study was undertaken among managers and supervisory level staff.

Our Indian Garment Industry has been rapidly growing in since last few years. Stress Management in organisations helps its employees achieve higher job satisfaction. Productivity and loyalty towards the organisation  increases. It has also shown to reduce absenteeism & health-care costs. Employees see Stress Management  as something that benefits throughout their life and not just during work time. Happy employees are more productive as they are capable of a clearer focus on the work at hand. They work with each other as a team towards achieving goals set by the organization. Practicing stress management and relaxation techniques on a regular basis helps a person stay calm and confident. Also, a proactive approach to managing stress lowers risks of health conditions caused due to chronic stress. It also helps in terms of balancing emotions, improved thinking capacity, and good health. Organizational role included role overload and role ambiguity. Questions pertaining to working conditions, time-pressure, and relationships with peers and superiors formed the part of organizational environment. Perceived adequacy of appraisal, feedback and training were measured by organizational support. Work-life balance contained subset of questions measuring difficulties in balancing work and personal life.

The present world is fast changing and there are lots of pressures and demands at work. These pressures at work lead to physical disorders. Stress is inescapable part of modern life, work place is becoming a volatile stress factory for most employees and it is rightly called as the Age of anxiety. Stress has becoming significantly with the result of dynamic social factors and changing needs of life styles. Stress is man‘s adaptive reaction to an outward situation which would lead to physical mental and behavioral changes. Brain cells create ideas, Stress may kills brain cells .The truth is that not all stresses are destructive in nature.

Stress in the work place has become the black plague of the present century. Much of the stress at work is caused not only by work overload and time pressure but also by lack of rewards and praise, and more importantly, by not providing individuals with the autonomy to do their work as they would like. Since the small scale garments industry is finance oriented, the management should arrange some stress managing programmes for their employee periodically. Small Scale or Large Scale Garment industries must begin to manage people at work differently, treating them with respect and valuing their contribution. If industries enhance the psychological well being and health of the employees, in the coming future the organization would make more revenue as well as employee retention. Because it is said that, “A Healthy Employee is a Productive Asset to Company”.

The researcher in this study is concluding the stress free employees perform better, work harder, feel happier and have a long term commitment to the organization as compared to their counterparts in present competitive business.

KEYWORDS: Stress, Work-related stress, Manager, Supervisor, Employee, Industry