Occupational health psychology

Introduction Employee’s work life is always one of the major concerns of an organisation in the 21st century. Due to the high competitive environment in the organisation, employee always feel stressed out when working inside the organisation. Besides that, conflict might also occur when employee is stress out. This kind of conflict is not constructive conflict that can build the organisation, but is destructive conflict that might bring negative impact towards the organisation. In order to…

anxiety create negative thinking. For example, if you're stressed, you'll believe that you're bound to experience troubles in the future, leading to anxiety over the future and so on. Some doctors say that stress changes one’s brain chemistry, physical health, and a person’s ability to cope with future issues, leading to the development of anxiety and/or an anxiety disorder. When that occurs, anxiety and stress start to contribute to each other. According to Kennedy, “It is completely normal…

Workplace characteristics: The demands of the workplace, including the physical conditions and demands of the tasks as well as the social demands in the workplace, has been identified as a source of stress to people with mental illness. Individuals with mental illness and sustained employment described sensitivity to stress as one of the ongoing difficulties experienced in work (Honey, 2004). Lack of institutional support and understanding toward people with mental illness can also inhibit Con…

Suicide Rates in High Professions Any job you’ll have will be stressful at some point. Whether it is being a doctor, professional athlete, musician or scientist; jobs are stressful. Money is a big part of having a stressful job. It is not the only thing, there’s also long hours, high client demand, and other emotional trauma from the job. There is a certain life style everyone wants to live. If you don’t make that much money you will not be able to reach that lifestyle goal you want to achieve.…

Job Stress has become a major concern of the modern times as it can cause harm to employee’s health and performance. Different psychologies and physiologists have defined stress differently. In simple words, stress is pressure or tensions people feel in life. As living human being makes demands, so it produces pressures, i.e., stress. Stress is, therefore, a natural and unavoidable feature of human life. Meaning of Stress Stress is a body reaction to demands or changes in internal and external…

I always felt that I was way out of my league after all I am only a health and safety representative, however, one thing that always gives me confidence is my rather bizarre understanding and interpretation of the OHS legislation. For examples sections, 21 and 25 of the OHS ACT 2004 make reference to employers and employee’s…

potentially neglect the training program and the efficiency of this training. Therefore, it is important that regulations are put in place that entitles companies to be held accountable for the people training the workers. This will further enforce the Occupational Work and Safety Act in various workplaces. It will also help to address the minimum standards that are not only required, but expected by workers and organizations. This will give employees the opportunity to address any concerns and…

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Employee Relations Employee health is the one of the most important roles of Human Resources (HR), because it is responsible for assisting the employee and the employer various issues. Issues like substance abuse, emotional mental health, health and older employees, organizational safety culture, safety training and communication, inspection investigation and evaluation, are some of the workplace issues HR consults with employees and employers. Also, HR provides counsel to employees and…

Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy are very similar professions. Often people get them confused with one another and use them interchangeably or even think the two are synonyms. However there are significant differences between the two. An easy way to remember is to look at the words themselves. The word occupation means “an activity in which a person is engaged”. The word physical however means “of or pertaining to the body”. The definitions are good clues into their differences. The job…