Workplace stress

Work-Stress Management “Analysis and Application Paper-Analysis Section” Stress has been considered a part of everyday life, and it affects everyone at some point and time. Some people may cope with stress more effectively or recover from stressful events quicker than others. It 's important to know your limits when it comes to stress to avoid serious health effects. Stress is caused by many things, but mainly when people have change in their lives, from getting married to determining what…

experience symptoms related to stress in a given month”, and “48% of Americans feel that their stress has increased over past five years”. Stress is the body’s way of responding to any kind of demand. There are three destructive effects of stress on humans: Stress with health, Stress with work, and Stress with life event. At the beginning, stress can affect the human’s health in different area in the body. Most people have stress, but they don’t know what does the impact of stress because they…

In Australia stress is a part of daily life, but most people do not know how to deal with it healthily and efficiently enough for the stress to have a minimal effect. The health effects of stress and the more serious cases of chronic stress can lead to detrimental mental and physical conditions, some irreversible (Mayo Clinic, 2013). To help stop this epidemic, a group of students and myself organised an activity in order to decrease the stress in our school environment. Schools are one of the…

In reality, no jobs come without the over loaded amounts of stress. From meeting goals, deadlines, fulfilling the expectations of upper management, and dealing with customers and coworkers can be a challenge. In some cases, the challenge is between building the relationships and maintaining that relationship with others. In Arlie Hochild’s novel The Managed Heart, Hochild mentioned major distinctions, which include: emotion labor, emotion work, emotion management, and feeling rules. In…

Effects of Stress The study of stress has gathered momentum with many different definitions with one describing the concept of stress as the emotional and physiological responses to circumstances that are too difficult to cope with or to some and which one has no choice but to endure them. Over the last few years, the term stress and it’s causes and effects have always had our attention. For some long period of time stress has always been around. Have you ever wondered what causes stress and…

According to a study conducted by the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) in 2010 stated the 35% of the U.S. workforce (an est. 53.5 million Americans) report being bullied… However Naomi Shavin writer for Forbes Magazine article What Workplace Bullying Looks Like In 2014 -- And How To Intervene. Did an interview on David Maxfield coauthor of the books Crucial Conversations and Influencer, Stating, 96% of American employees experience bullying in the workplace and the nature of that bullying is…

Bullying is such a delicate subject that it leaves people at a vulnerable stage where all trust is given to the person in responsible to deal with, but when that is not the case, there are consequences to both the organization and target. Bullying is an issue that should not be taken lightly as every situation is different which means there should be a different approach to all cases. However, HRPs take the issue into something they cannot handle which can cost the organization dearly as…

Workplace bullying is a form of provocation or harassment, especially one that is regularly repetitive against an individual, and usually done consciously with an aim of hurting the target person. In most organizations, this goes unnoticed unless it is at high levels or physical, which negatively affects the performance of the organization (Namie & Namie, 2011). As a result, new mechanisms ought to be developed and adopted to address this issue in the organization. Problematizing workplace…

situations involving groping or getting raped for fear of losing some type of benefit or job security, as well as actions that have made working and feeling comfortable while at work difficult. The unfortunate side of sexual harassment while in the workplace is that no matter how many seminar’s employees complete, understanding…

to believe that many women do not have the qualities or the potential that are required to obtain certain positions that a man would hold in the work field. For many centuries, gender stereotypes have created barriers and hindered women in the workplace. Women have been treated unfairly, looked upon as objects, and discriminated against. Gender stereotyping also leads to sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination. This can stagnate a women’s growth socially and psychologically, and cause…