Le stress au travail : les facteurs de stress et les modèles

The objective of this literature review is to outline the state of the different authors dealing with stress. Therefore, in view to understand the stress concept, this review will deal with job stressors, and different models which try to explain the stress process. Nevertheless, the concept is not as easy to understand, as it may seem. The myriad of definitions proposed by the researchers and the methodology used, are some of the research limitations.

stress is nowadays appearing as one of the major concerns in the workplace, the organisations and the companies have to deal with. During the last years, the workplace has evolved. Some causes of this phenomenon are the rapid expansion of the information technology, the globalisation, the type of work contract and the type of scheduling. All of these factors have changed the tasks and the environment of work. This evolution is at the origin of an increase in job stress. (Cooper et al, 2001).
Researchers have done a lot of studies on the main aspects of the stress notion. (Cooper and Dewe, 2004). It is becoming a subject of number of discussions in the academic world. stress in organisation is a rapidly growing concern to organisational researchers and management practitioners because of the relationships with a "magnitude of costly individual and organizational symptoms". (Schuler, 1980).