Write an 8 paged research paper on the following topic: Topic: Stress management in the workplace which includes: (1) stressors in the workplace; (2) health risks in the workplace; and (3) work stress...

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Stress Management in the workplace
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Abstract
Most of the people at their workplace suffer from stress due to the pressure of demands,
expectations and targets to achieve various goals in their job. Stress at job has prolonged effect
over minds and health of person which just does not extinguishes at the end of the day. Even if
person loves to do his job but still there are certain stress elements in every job in the form of
pressure to complete the work on time and to meet all the challenging expectations. However,
chronic work stress might have harmful impact over both mental and physical wellness of the
workers with overwhelming negative outcome for the organization. Most of the cases of
depression and anxiety occur because of too much work stress which is not under the control of
the worker to manage. There are various categories of health risks associated with working
conditions such as temperature, space, use of equipment and machineries, etc. Organisations
should support its employees to work efficiently with minimum burden so that earning money
does not become the only goal of the employee rather enjoying work and life should be the part
of their professional attitude.
That is why, it is quite important to find positive and balance between the work and personal life
y adopting certain medical strategies so that it helps in reducing the level of stress.
Keywords: Stress, Workplace, Hazards, health risks, safety
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Stress management in the workplace
Every job requires different roles, skills and responsibilities to be managed by the person
at the workplace. There arise conflicts in accomplishing the tasks due to overlapping of their
oles and common usage of resources in an office. Also, the developmental possibilities at the
workplace such as that of promotions, training of employees, insecurity of job, etc. are important
sources of stress. Apart from that, the stressors at the job lead to reduction in the efficiency of the
employees as they become tensed and not able to focus over their tasks to be completed. The
culture of organisations also varies leading to development of different chain of relationships
among all the levels of the designations. Managers are responsible for creation of conducive
environment at the workplace as they might be excessively demanding and most of the time
criticizing the work and attitude of his co-workers creating lot of stress. This unsupportive nature
of the managers would lead to spread of negative vibes into the environment having deep impact
over the productivity of the employees. Hence, they are not able to share their problems and
issues faced in their job and just try to complete their work at given deadline rather than
concentrating over the quality of the work delivered. Sometimes employees at the workplace are
also the sufferer of being bullied by their peer group or the managers, thus disabling such
workers to develop a good team and handling group tasks fearlessly.
Stress management at workplace is important because it needs to be managed not only by
the employees but it is quite important to reduce it by the higher management so that the
organization does not lose its reputation over the period of time. It might lead to health hazards
for the workers in the long run in the form of depression or cardiac a
ests which are generally
not felt in the short duration of time. Therefore, managing stress and supervising the reasons for
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eing too depressive or unhappy at the workplace should be done by peer group or the managers
to avoid such incidences.
Statistics of Workplace Stress
Statistics say that around 40% of the total workers in American organizations suffer from
stress, as surveyed by the North-western National Life. Also, 26% of the workers say that they
are extremely burned out while performing their job tasks. They are of the view that stress at job
has strong association with the health issues rather than with that of financial problems or the
elated family issues (Prevention, 1999).
Half of the employees working at an organization need to learn stress management
techniques as they remained stressful most of the time. Around 25% of the workers say that they
feel like shouting to spit out their frustration at workplace. 18% of the employees have already
got some ve
al threat or intimidation during past year either from their co-workers or from the
employer. All the above mentioned statistics are key evidences showing the rising trend of
stressful working environment in offices in a race to achieve their targets (Interactive, 2009).
Stressors at the workplace lead to job sickness, hurting hands, stressful eyes, sleep
deprivation or insomnia, etc. Difficulties are being faced by around 65% of the workers out of
which 10% face major...