EFFECTS OF MOTIVATION, STRESS AND COMPENSATION BENEFITS ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN IT PROFESSIONALS

People are the most important asset and organizational success comes from managing people effectively. With a highly driven performance and result oriented culture in IT industry, continual innovation of technologies and development of the human resources has become the prime concern. -Performance assessment in IT industry is not setting goals and targets,closely followed by supervision, - but is a product of competency development and empowerment. Motivating employees to perform better is the best way to ensure that employees put the maximum effort to achieve the results within the stipulated time. Organisational performance is the accumulated result of deliverables at each level and every supervisor has to ensure on cotinious performance improvement whereby making performance a daily commitment . In this paper, an attempt has been made to identify the relationship between the factors like motivation, compensation benefits, job stress and performance of the IT employees of Bangalore, India. This research has adopted an exploratory approach by collecting primary data from 584 employees. The regression model created suggests a relationship between compensation benefits, motivation, stress and job performance. The model indicates a positive impact of compensation and motivation on performance, while stress has a significant negative impact.