The university is a place where an individual’s knowledge, skill, mind and character developed for socio-economic and political capacities. The university exists with the efforts of the academic and non-academic staff. The staff of any university controls the operational activities, in order for the university to attain its stated goals and objectives. The attainment of these university goals and objectives, is therefore, determined by the performance of the university staff. The performance of the best staff can dwindle due to the presence of work stress factors at the university workplace. Stress is a common and complex phenomenon to humans and it is inevitable at the workplace round the world. Stress in the university organization will definitely have impact on the individuals and the organization. Work stress is a concept that has been defined by numerous scholars and researchers in different ways such as, Kazmi, Amjad, & Khan (2008), define work stress as a change in one’s physical or mental state, in other words disturbance or imbalance from normal state. Work stress is used to denote an excessive environmental force, which by its actions on an individual, causes him harm and the individual’s reaction on such a situation, such as irritability or inability to concentrate (Ejiogu & Aderounmu as cited in Ejiogu, 2006). Work stress is a number of features within the workplace (intrinsic to job role, role within organization, career development, work relationships, organizational climate/structure have the potential of producing negative organizational and extra-organizational outcomes which often impair mental health and physical well-being (Babatunde, 2013).

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