Workplace stress is a common factor in everyday lives that can lead to health and mental issues. It is important to work with employers and their staff to help with this growing problem within the workplace. Stress can lead to less morale and productivity if not addressed properly. Many companies put pressure on employees to meet bottom line and customers’ demands. With this pressure comes lack of safety, health issues, and the added stress to meet the daily demands of management.
There are laws that help with workplace safety and overall health, but employees still have the symptoms of stress that could be alleviated by some type of meditation. Which type and how it is implemented is what employers are discussing without cutting into …show more content…
(2014) Professional Safety, 59(4), 12.
A survey was conducted with professionals from industries including manufacturing, construction, health services, and oil and gas. Twenty-four percent of participants reported stress as a health and safety issue while 20% reported being over-worked as not receiving enough consideration in their facilities. However, three out of five concerns that are mostly overlooked are psychosocial concerns. Physical dangers like hazardous materials, falls from above, and even confined spaces are covered by health and safety training and following processes. The survey highlighted the lack of focus on hidden dangers like stress, …show more content…
(1980, March) ‘Burnout’ and organizational change. Social Work. P. 87.
Workers who experience burnout tend to have a low self-morale, absenteeism, and job turnover. Many workplace human resources have been trying to find antidotes for the worker burnouts. Some of the popular antidotes range from meditation, yoga, and physical exercises. Others for in-house antidotes could be a worker support networks, worker “time outs,” in service training, staff retreats, job rotation, and job sharing.
Not just in the social workers environment is this happening, but is occurring in other job areas that is seeing burnouts. Noticeable factors that are associated with burnouts are the inability of workers to achieve their objectives and their belief that they lack control over their own activities and operations in the workplace. By implementing the antidotes, the social workers can make their organizations more responsive to consumer objectives and needs to prevent burnout.
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There are laws that help with workplace safety and overall health, but employees still have the symptoms of stress that could be alleviated by some type of meditation. Which type and how it is implemented is what employers are discussing without cutting into …show more content…
(2014) Professional Safety, 59(4), 12.
A survey was conducted with professionals from industries including manufacturing, construction, health services, and oil and gas. Twenty-four percent of participants reported stress as a health and safety issue while 20% reported being over-worked as not receiving enough consideration in their facilities. However, three out of five concerns that are mostly overlooked are psychosocial concerns. Physical dangers like hazardous materials, falls from above, and even confined spaces are covered by health and safety training and following processes. The survey highlighted the lack of focus on hidden dangers like stress, …show more content…
(1980, March) ‘Burnout’ and organizational change. Social Work. P. 87.
Workers who experience burnout tend to have a low self-morale, absenteeism, and job turnover. Many workplace human resources have been trying to find antidotes for the worker burnouts. Some of the popular antidotes range from meditation, yoga, and physical exercises. Others for in-house antidotes could be a worker support networks, worker “time outs,” in service training, staff retreats, job rotation, and job sharing.
Not just in the social workers environment is this happening, but is occurring in other job areas that is seeing burnouts. Noticeable factors that are associated with burnouts are the inability of workers to achieve their objectives and their belief that they lack control over their own activities and operations in the workplace. By implementing the antidotes, the social workers can make their organizations more responsive to consumer objectives and needs to prevent burnout.
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