Stress Management: Strategies for Reducing Workplace Stress

Research Skills

Topic: Stress Management
Today, most of the organisations face problems related to workers’ stress that not only affect
their performance but also adversely impact on their quality of life (Connolly and et. al., 2019). It
generally increases, when people feel much work pressure or threat regarding with losing a job if
they do not perform well. So, consequences of this results in leading health problems, that may
arise challenges for organisations in maintaining ethical culture at workplace. To under this
concept as well as its importance for a company, in terms of stress management, a report is
made. It reveals how working conditions and other situations put pressure on associated people
and increase their stress level. Along with this, the way such organisations handle stress and put
efforts of reducing same is also being discussed, with key benefits of same for performance
improvement at workplace.
According to Thompson (2015), Stress is relatively much different from pressure which is
inevitable, while stress at workplace can be avoided. It is more likely occurred when there is
either too much or little pressure on employees. It is only depended on the level of pressure they
experience while giving out performance at certain workplace, as well as the way they respond
towards same. Therefore, before considering manner in which stress can be managed, it is
essential for individuals or management team of an association to acknowledge by key difference
of both concepts (stress and pressure). In this regard, it has been analysed that stress highly put
adverse impact on individual health, through numerous ways. It includes stress-related illness
such as coronary heart diseases (increase heart-beat, failure of heart and more), ulcerative colitis,
migration and so on. Similarly, vulnerability to diseases where body of individuals under high
pressure resist to show positive changes, with decrease level of motivation and experience of low
morale shows another signs of adverse impact of stress on human health (Afifi and et. al., 2020).
In such conditions, tension and irritability with proneness to error results in leading conflicts and
disagreements among people at workplace. Therefore, to reduce the same, it is essential for
people to understand their own potential for combatting or preventing themselves from stress. By
realising how increased pressure level and stressful condition, put negatively on their health and
well-being state, they can develop plans to overcome from the same. Thus, it has evaluated that
understanding the stress is the foremost step for managing it (Thompson, 2015). Along with this,
for stress management, it is also essential for people to develop skills and strategies in terms of –
Understanding about own nature first; Set objectives for sustaining a stress-free life; Turn
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