Workplace Stress: Causes, Effects and Management

Running head: WORKPLACE STRESS
Workplace Stress
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WORKPLACE STRESS
Stress is caused at the workplace owing to the long hour of the work, work overload
along with the time pressure. Poor physical work condition at the workplace also give rise to
stress. Conflicting role and under promotion are vital factors that can give rise to workplace
stress. There are managers who act in a critical manner and are demanding and this can pave
the path for stress at the workplace (Michie 2002). Taking work home and high level of the
responsibility in the workplace also produces stress within an organisation. The individuals in
the workplace have to suffer from stress because they may have to bear additional
responsibilities like childcare responsibility along with housing problems (Causes and
management of stress at work).
Occupational stress occurs within a multicultural workplace owing to lack of the
correspondence between characteristics of a person and that of work environment. The
aligning of the people characteristics with work environment can produce positive outcome
both for the individual and the organization. There should be a fit between the desires of the
worker and job in which they are engaged that can give rise to a positive environment at the
workplace (Pasca and Wagner 2011). The cultural differences existing at the workplace can
also result in stress. The people coming from various cultural groups have to go through
occupational stress because they cannot fit into the culture that exist in the workplace. The
discrimination taking place within the ambit of a multi-cultural environment can give result
to stress in an organization (Occupational stress in the multicultural workplace).
The work within the ambit of a health care setting can prove to be very stressful for an
individual. There are cultural differences present that is an important cause of stress in the
healthcare setting. Work stress reduces the work efficiency of an individual and an individual
refuses to co-operate in the case of workplace stress (Lambert, Lambert and Yamase 2003).
Enhancing the psychological tardiness can enable an individual with work-related stress. In
the event of the demand which are placed on a person exceeding the available resources