Stress has debilitating effect on the productivity of any company or establishment. When stress has overcome or take over the human resources of any establishment, the end thereof of the establishment production will be low; thence work stress needs to be managed both at individual level and in a general level for better productivity. This study seek to examine stress management techniques for bank workers in Ado-Ekiti local government area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The research design that was used for this study was survey design of the descriptive type of research. The sample size of four hundred (400) bank workers was sampled for the study using simple random sampling technique. The respondents were drawn from commercial banks in the study area. The instrument for data collection was a self-constructed questionnaire. The split half method of reliability was used to ascertain the reliability of the instrument using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation and Spearman Brown’s formula. A coefficient of 0.93 was obtained. Formulated hypotheses were tested using inferential statistics of Pearson Chi-Square, the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The researcher concluded that there is significant occurrence of stress during work among bank workers, break between work period and Physical therapies will be a stress managing technique among bank workers. The researcher recommended that each bank worker should balance family, work, social and spiritual life in order to keep up an effective and quality stress management. The management of banks should set up organizational stress prevention programme to provide an environment will less stress for optimal productivity from their workers. The bank management should design and implement interventions based on the information gathered from their interaction with the workers. These interventions should be priotized.

Bank workers, Management, Productivity

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