Abstract

In modern era elementary education plays a vitalrole forthe enhancement ofliteracy rate ofthe countries. Similarly, the ultimate goal of elementary education in Pakistan is to increase the enrollment of the students and control the dropout ratio in order to make county a graduate nation. This goal can be achieved through effective teaching conducted by the elementary school teacher. However, the teaching conducted by the elementary teachers is lesseffectiveduetotheorganizationalandworkloadstress.Nevertheless,this ideais insufficientlydeliberatedatthe elementarylevelinPakistan.Inthiscontext,theacademicperformancecruciallydrives theexcellenceofelementary education. A quantitative cross-sectional research design was used for this study involving 228 elementary school teachers who were sampled by using a simple random sampling technique. A survey method was used to collect the data through self-administered questionnaires. SPSS ver.25 was employed to analyse the data. The findings of the study show that there was a positive and significance correlation between organizational stress and workload stress effect the academic performance of elementary school teachers. This study provides the meaningful significant contribution for the sustainable development of elementary education institutions by adopting new strategies and techniques.

Key words: Organizational stress, workload stress, academic performance