The primary objective of this research is to explore the relationship between job stress and the employee happiness at work and to access
the impact of different sources of stress on employee happiness at work individually. The sources of job stress that have been investigated
in this study include role ambiguity, role conflict, job complexity, task variety and management role. The population consists of all nursing
staff from different hospitals working for only the private sectors in Gorakhpur district. The result reveals that job stress has a significant
negative relationship with employ happiness at work. On the basis of these results, the source of stress have been identified in terms of their
importance with respect to their impact on employee happiness at work among the nursing staff of these private hospitals in Gorakhpur
district.