Article Line Management Competence : The Key For Preventing And Reducing Stress At Work

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Attempts are made to keep employees focused by frequent staff meetings, but people only partially pay attention as managers announce company developments. Management’s perceived need to continually push employees to act right is apparent in the way they handles the missing cover page on Peter’s TPS report. Stress To study stress in the work place, researchers often measure the existing stressors being dealt with by employees. The stressors may be either physical or psychological demands to which an individual responds and, if chronic or persistent, can lead to negative reactions or responses called strains. Physical task stressors include excessive heat, noise, and light, as well as job demands such as a time-pressured work pace, heavier workload, and the amount of hours worked.

This research is aim to provide insight on how stress and conflict plays a component in the workforce and strategies on how to reduce

Many believe that stress is a simple problem, however it is often misunderstood and more complex than they believe (p. 181, Griffin & Moorhead, 2014). Stress is the physiological and psychological response to excessive and usually unpleasant stimulation as well as threatening events in the environment (p. 284, Schultz and Schultz, 2010). Stress appears in silent and subtle ways but this negative response affects millions of employees in all levels of all types of jobs (p. 284, Schultz and Schultz, 2010). If identified

METHODS: a cross-sectional study was conducted from January to July 2014, Participants completed demographic, occupational and lifestyle questionnaire, and a self-reported work-related stress symptoms instrument.

According to Hayes & Weathington (2007) people who work in the service industries are constantly confronted with stressful work circumstances. As Hayes & Weathington (2007) mention managers of restaurants tend to deal with stress daily. This is true because they deal with multipronged unforeseen issues on any given day. Those issues can range from issues such as displeased customers to maintaining the standard of the restaurant (Hayes & Weathington, 2007). Dealing with stressful issues on daily occurrences can be deteriorating mentally and physically over time, resulting in many unpleasant reactions (Hayes & Weathington, 2007).

However, more complex models of an individual’s experience in the workplace often appear to be set aside in an Endeavour to simplify the process of trying to measuring “stress” or some

Stress in the workplace has the potential to lower the performance of employees and consequently lower the general outputs of the firm leading to potential losses. It is important to note that some level of stress in any work environment is normal however too much of the same can easily translate to losses in the business as well as lower motivation and even introduce aspects of employee turnover in a job environment (Darden, 2014). Excessive stress can also be transferred to other areas including the home and consequently introduce problems with the families of the employees. Ensuring that stress in the workplace is identified and actions to relieve the employees of the same taken is necessary for the sake of ensuring continuous productivity while also bolstering the wellbeing of the employee population. The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) is an organization that has realized the importance of a healthy employee population and therefore constantly seeks to ensure that aspects such as stress are always identified and actions to deal with the same taken on time (AVIC, 2015). AVIC has an employee centered job approach that aims to ensure that the employee population is at the centre of any organizational decision as it is evident that employees are a very important asset for the large organization.

It is estimated that stress causes the UK economy around £7 billion a year, of which £4 billion is as a result of the 180 million working days lost due to staff taking time off work. As such the importance, if not purely on a financial basis, can be seen to

In broad biological terms, work-related stress can be defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker (Hudzik, 2005). Thus, the hurtful physical and enthusiastic reactions may be the reason for individuals ' degenerate conduct that may lead them to have conflict in their work place or even in affiliation. Stress at work can be conceptualized as an

Occupational stress in an increasing topic and focus where stress is concern in the workplace. More and more people are becoming ill due to work and have to take a number of sick days to recupriate for more work hours. What causes this is based on a number of factors which researchers are aiming at looking into, hence the increase of interest in the field of occupational psychology. Occupational psychology, as the British Psychology Society puts it, is the attempt or aim of giving workers the satisfaction of working in an effective and safe-like environment. Occupational psychologists goal is to improve and maintain the working environment for employees which would limit the cause of stress in the workplace and eliminating illness.

It is evident that the relationship between work stress and mental health has been established by numerous research studies. As discussed in Koesky (1993), the fact that all jobs involve some degree of stress makes it all the more alarming as to the level of stress experienced by individuals working in the human services. That is, given that these individuals are heavily involved in the lives of others, they often develop mental health symptoms that are characteristic of work-related stressors. In fact, “This involvement, which requires caring commitment and empathic responding, places workers at risk for a special type of strain commonly referred to as 'burnout'” (Koesky, 1993, p. 319).

Stress is a common issue that faces every human being in different times. Stress can be caused by many factors, but one of the main reasons is work which is called occupational stress or work-related stress. Job stress does not only affect the employees’ performance within an organization, but also it affects their general health. Stress has become a challenge for employers now because high level stress results in low productivity, increased absenteeism and other problems like alcoholism, drug abuse and hypertension (Ahmad, Mohamed. 2017). It became a major problem for employers especially in developing countries where they don’t realize the importance of work-life balance and the impact of stress on the productivity level and the job

Huss (2012) describes how supervision is beginning to decrease, which can be due to the possible lack of supervisory positions or funding. This is an example of why the current practices, i.e. EPA, supervision, and OD, need to change within organizations. Based on personal experience, in order to help manage an employees’ stress, an organization needs to ensure that their staff has the tools needed to work efficiently and effectively. Organizations must be aware of the stress that can be caused by the policies, regulations and conflicting demands of the external and internal factors that influence an employee’s work (Dextras-Gautier, Marchand, & Haines, 2012). Furthermore, organizational SMIs encompass the leadership of administration,

Without any doubt, stress is one of the biggest challenges and most complicated problems of man in modern life. Stress is the body's reaction to harmful situations; a chemical reaction occurs in the body that allows a person to act in a way to prevent injury. The human body is designed to handle small doses of stress. However, the body is not equipped to handle long-term, chronic stress without ill consequences. According to surveys by Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW,2016), three-fourths (75%) of U.S. employers ranked stress as their top health and productivity concern. Having said that, this essay argues three causes of stress in a workplace. The first cause of stress is working with an obsessive supervisor. The second cause is lack of training, and the third cause is job insecurity. However, meditation, exercise on regular basis and a healthy diet are important factors which minimize the amount of stress caused by work.