Font Size: 

This study aims to identify the factors of relationship between occupational stress, developing training needs and performance enhancement of SMES’ employees in Melaka. The occupational stress factors consist of Intrinsic to the Job, Role in Organisation, Career Development, Relationship at Work and Organisational Structure. The results indicate that there is a positive correlation between all the occupational stress factors on training needs and performance enhancment SMEs’ employees in Melaka. Thus, all the occupational stress factors are correlated and could be used in developing training needs development and the performance enhancement of employees. The findings revealed that the Intrinsic to the Job factors were the greatest sources of occupational stress to SMEs’ employees. The Stepwise Multimpule Regression Test revealed that the best predictors of Occupational Stress Factors on Training Needs are Organisational Structure and Relationship at Work. Occupational stress does affect an individual’s ability to address workplace challenges.