Managing Workplace Stress

This assignment explores effective ways to manage workplace stress, particularly for new graduates. It emphasizes techniques like relaxation exercises, mindfulness, tracking stressors, seeking support from colleagues or family, and utilizing employee assistance programs. The document stresses that quitting a job should not be the first solution to workplace stress and highlights the importance of developing healthy coping mechanisms.

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Many fresh graduates face a lot of challenges when they start working. This makes some
to lose hope, and they decide to resign the job and find another job somewhere else. This mostly
occurs due to lack of experience hence when they are given ( Schwarzer, 2014) opportunities to
develop skills they find it stressful to work under any conditions. Some of other causes of stress
in the workplace include low salaries, inadequate social support in the workplace, and lack of
enough control on the job-related decisions. Below are some of the ways on how Vivian can
manage stress in the working place rather than resigning.
First and foremost, the fresh graduate in working place should learn on how to relax and
also take time to recharge. This is by use of techniques such as exercises like breathing, go for
medication and also mindfulness. Also one has to find time to relax and replenish. This helps to
avoid some of the adverse effects such as burnout, chronic stress and return to pre-stress level
(Baer, 2015). When one is unable to find some time, one has to have quick boost. This is
achieved by turning off the smartphone and then focus some non-work activity for some time.
Also, one should track the stressors and then develop very healthy responses. To follow
stressors, one should keep a journal for at list a whole week while recording the situations that
lead to most stress. Also one has to record the feeling, thoughts and also the information about
the atmosphere around the working place. After one week one should evaluate on how to keep
off the stress. This is mostly achieved keeping healthy (Hartman et al., 2015) responses when
talking to people around the working place and also the leaders. Instead of fighting stress with
first foods and alcohol one should make the best choices when the tension feeling arises. Yoga is
the best choice but physical activity is more beneficial.

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Further, the fresh graduates should also ask help and some support from the trusted
people in the working place or those who have stayed in that workplace for a long time, trusted
friends, relatives, and some other family members. This can improve one's ability to deal with
the stress. Also one should find any program aimed at the assistance of employees. The fresh
graduates such as Vivian may find the information from the internet, any available canceling
body or see consult some professionals on mental health to help to manage the stress (Carr,
2015). If there is a continuous overwhelming by pressure in the workplace, one has to get a
psychologist to help by using proper methods and ways to manage the stress and also to change
unhealthy behaviors in the workplace.
In conclusion, the fresh graduates should seek guidance from those people who have the
experience on ways to overcome and also to scope these stress associated with the work place.
Quitting the job may not be the proper solution to deal with the stress because many works are
associated with a lot of pressure.

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Carr, A. (2015). The handbook of child and adolescent clinical psychology: A contextual
approach. Routledge.
Baer, R. A. (Ed.). (2015). Mindfulness-based treatment approaches: Clinician's guide to
evidence base and applications. Academic Press.