Workplace Stress: A Comprehensive Analysis of Contributing Factors

This report examines the multifaceted issue of workplace stress, exploring its various causes and effects. The analysis begins by identifying key stressors such as long working hours, work overload, poor physical work conditions, conflicting roles, and demanding management styles. It further investigates the impact of cultural differences in multicultural workplaces, highlighting how a mismatch between individual characteristics and the work environment can lead to occupational stress. The report also discusses stress within healthcare settings and the importance of psychological hardiness in mitigating stress. It addresses how inappropriate job design, poor management, inadequate communication, and lack of employee involvement contribute to workplace stress. Finally, the report considers the implications of conflicting priorities and the sacrifice of personal relationships due to long working hours, concluding with strategies for stress reduction and management to improve employee well-being and organizational productivity. This report is a valuable resource for students, and more study materials are available on Desklib.

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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

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stressful situations can occur in the workplace. In the event of the personal effort of an
individual going unappreciated, stress can be caused at the workplace (Psychological
hardiness, workplace stress and related stress reduction strategies).
Inappropriate job design along with poor management style can give rise to stress in
an organization. The organizational culture being unsympathetic can also cause stress that
can reduce the productivity of an employee in the workplace. The poor communication
existing between a manager and an employee can also act as the cause of workplace stress for
an employee. In the event of the employees not being involved in the process of decision-
making an employee may have to feel workplace stress. Bullying along with harassment
within the workplace can also result in stress for an employee (Stevenson and Harper 2006).
Conflicting priorities along with lack of the element of challenge in an organization can also
compel an employee to face the adverse effect of workplace stress. In the event of an
employee having to work for long hours by sacrificing of domestic relationship workplace
stress can be felt by an employee (Workplace stress and the student learning experience).

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References:
Lambert, V.A., Lambert, C.E. and Yamase, H., 2003. Psychological hardiness, workplace
stress and related stress reduction strategies. Nursing & health sciences, 5(2), pp.181-184.
Michie, S., 2002. Causes and management of stress at work. Occupational and
environmental medicine, 59(1), pp.67-72.
Pasca, R. and Wagner, S.L., 2011. Occupational stress in the multicultural
workplace. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 13(4), pp.697-705.
Stevenson, A. and Harper, S., 2006. Workplace stress and the student learning
experience. Quality Assurance in Education, 14(2), pp.167-178.