Workplace stress

Employers have progressively become interested in workplace wellness programs and activities. Wellness programs are popular and successful because it has proven to be beneficial to both employers and employees. Consequently, the vast majority or organizations offer some type of wellness benefit to their employees. An effective wellness program will improve employees’ health, reduce health costs while increasing employees’ morale and productivity. Mattke, Schnyer, and Van (2012) recognizes the…

There are a lot of issues that can result to disputes and dissatisfaction amongst workers in the workplace; a few of the most common issues are: workplace ageism, workplace racism, workplace bullying, workplace discrimination, workplace violence etc. But in this write up I am going to discuss and reflect on workplace bullying. Although there is no universally accepted formal definition of workplace bullying, several researchers have tried to define it. Some categorize all harmful boss behaviors…

A toxic workplace is a serious threat to your life style and life quality, and opens the door to a host of diseases that destroy your health. In the end, it comes down to how you deal with stress. A certain amount of stress in the workplace is normal, even beneficial because it compels people to move forward with their plans in pursuit of their goals and dreams. It's when you succumb under the weight of pressures in a toxic workplace that stress can get out of control. Then it becomes a real…

victims such as depression, anxiety, nightmares, anger, powerlessness, increased blood pressure, withdrawal, traumatic stress and isolation. Strong policies should be instituted both nationally and within organizations to address gender-based…

According to the job demand control support theory, if support is offered to employees whether by co-workers, supervisors and friends or family, stress can be moderated in the workplace. However, when the job demands are high, and there is low control and low job support that can result to high chances of health related problems (Karasek, 1979). For example when call centre employees are expected to work every day including holidays and weekends, they have zero control and zero support and that…

major sources of stress to the correctional officers, their impacts on the inmates, and how the correctional officers cope with their stress: Correctional officers have been facing a lot of stress in their work due to various reasons. Three of the major sources of stress to the correction officers are: i)the harsh physical conditions of the prisons, ii)the violence which results from the inmates and iii)the tiredness which results from their difficult work. These sources of stress have had great…

work long hours are often very unhappy sometimes because of stress they endure at work. There is even a term for this stress, called “desk rage”. Researchers are studying the causes, consequences and possible solutions for this anger. Laura Stack, the CEO and President of Productivity Pro, stated, “Workers are stressed to epidemic proportions,” (Leave Work Earlier, Page 56) because, even though they always have encountered workplace stress, it's more intense currently due to economic and…

century, stress has been one of the leading complaints by employees in the workforce due to the complexity of most jobs. In a telephone poll done for the Marlin Company by Harris Interactive, 80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress and 42% say their coworkers need such help (Harris). This statistic is one of many that has called for increase awareness needing to be shared about known stress factors and ways in which to decrease…

also cause concern by creating potential health problems due to stress. Perfectionism and Burnout: How to ruin your success at work, school, and on the field Researchers at York St. John University in England have published an online study in the Personality and Social Psychology Review that used meta-analysis to compare and contrast statistical data on perfectionism and burnout. The study, which is the first of its kind, examined stress and potential health problems related to perfectionist…

We as physicians can be a tough lot of people. Let’s face it, we had to be to make it through medical school and our fellowship sane and ready to help others. Often, this can lead to a syndrome of not taking the proper care of ourselves, and in some cases, being accused of being horrible patients when the physical effects of not taking care of ourselves start to manifest. Physician burnout can be a real concern for all physicians because of the type of job we take on. We want to be able to…