Stress Management Plan: Work-Life Balance and Legal Rights

This assignment presents a comprehensive stress management plan, addressing various aspects of workplace stress. It begins with identifying stress triggers and developing coping mechanisms, including self-care techniques like yoga and meditation, to mitigate the impact of stressful situations such as complex client behavior, profit and loss fluctuations, stressful working conditions, and stressful incidents. The plan extends to the workplace, providing strategies to manage stress involving colleagues and clients, with examples of handling complex client behavior and business fluctuations. The assignment also references the Fair Work Act 2009, outlining relevant legal rights concerning workplace stress, such as freedom from discrimination and undue influence. Furthermore, it details self-care techniques like maintaining a healthy work-life balance, avoiding emotional eating, and limiting social media use. The assignment concludes with strategies to balance work and personal life, organize workload to minimize stress through time management, and identify who to inform about work requirement changes and difficulties. The document is supported by references to relevant books and journals.

Manage stress

Question 1: Complete the following Stress management Plan
Address the four triggers & identify 2 of your own Satisfacto
ry
response
Yes ☐ No
☐
Answer:
The source
of
stress/trigger
Describe the
situation
How did you
respond?
What would
your
preferred
coping
mechanism
be?
Support
Services you
could access
Self-Care
Technique
A) Complex
client
behaviour
There are
various
situation
within the
organisation
where the
behaviour of
client not so
easy to
understand
and can
cause the
stress while
dealing with
particular
kind of client
(Mitchell,
2020) .
Try to
become call
and
understand
the situation
of customer
by analysing
their
behaviour.
I will try to
use my yoga
lessons for
being calm
First aid For taking
self-care I
will use to
take blood
pressure
pills.
B) Grief and
Loss
Business
profit and
loss the
routine
situation
from which a
different
kind of stress
which has to
be face by
individual.
Try to
analyse the
situation and
take
effective
decisions.
Try to pass Use
assistance
from
commercial
banks and
saving
account
Being calm
in situation
C) Stressful
working
conditions
This
situation
arise at the
time when
the work
load is more
origination
To deal with
this factor I
will try to
manage the
work by
dividing it in
small parts
To manage
function by
identification
of work
Try to
manage
work by
allocating it
small groups
Try to use
help of
subordinates
and other
working staff
in
organization.
D) Stressful
incidents
In current
time it there
are various
stress
I will use
resources in
appropriate
manner and
I will use task
management
process to
reduce these
In this case
major
services
which are
Use
meditation to
reduce stress
from various
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indicator in
organtional
environment
like overload
work.
Improper
management
and many
more.
try to reduce
negative
impact of
these factors
by
management
of work.
incidents available are
related to
management
skills for
managing
work.
factor
Question 2: Your stress management plan in the Workplace
Use strategies from your personal plan to identify &
manage two (2) stressful situations in the workplace
involving colleagues or clients
Satisfactory
response
Yes ☐ No
☐
Answer:
Situation one:
Complex Clint behaviour: in relation to this situation I will use particular
approach to identify the behaviour of client and benign calm so that I can help
clients in using their functions which help hospital in achieving goals and
objectives by client satisfaction (Barroso, Madisetti and Mueller, 2020).
Situation two:
Profit and loss: It are routine business situations which arise because of
business fluctuations and can be handling by me with the help of identification
on core situation. I also try to use meditation so that I can eliminate stress
because of this factor.
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Question 3: Refer to the fair Work Act 2009
What are the legal rights relevant to this act with
reference to stress in the workplace?
Satisfactory
response
Yes ☐ No
☐
Answer:
There are various legal rights relevant to fair work act 2009 with reference to
stress in the workplace which is going to be mentioned below:
 It is necessary to follow right that is mentioned in fair work act. In this
act, it is vital for employees to be free from unlawful discrimination
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which helps in reducing stress level of an individual person.
 It is vital to follow rights that are described in fair work act. It is
necessary to have right to be free from pressure as well as undue
influence that helps in negotiating individual arrangements which will
be in reducing stress level of an individual person.
 It is important to have workplace rights that also help subordinates in
eliminating stress level of an individual person (Parkynand
Wall,2020).
Therefore, there are various rights which must be followed that helps
in reducing stress level of an individual person.
Question 4: Describe three (3) self-care techniques you could use to
manage your own stress? Give an example of each: Satisfactory
response
Yes
☐
No ☐
Answer:
There are various self-care techniques that are helpful in managing or handing
stress which is going to be mentioned below:
Create a healthy work life balance: It is necessary to maintain balance
between healthy work lives which reduces stress level. For reducing burden of
work, it is vital for individual person to managing balance among healthy work
life for eliminating stress.
Avoid emotional eating: It is necessary to avoid emotional eating in
order to reduce stress level of an individual person. Therefore, it is vital to eat
healthy snacks that eliminating stress level which will be beneficial for me.
Limit time spent on social media: Herein, it is vital to limit time spent
on social media that helps in reducing level of stress of an individual person.
Many people spent too much time on online application that increases stress
and also reduces time spent on social media (Heredia and et. al. (2020).
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Question 5: A) Describe two (2) strategies you could use to balance
your work/ personal life priorities?
B) How could you organise your workload to minimise
stress?
C) Who would you inform if you need changes to your
work requirements and to discuss difficulties?
Satisfactory
response
Yes
☒
No ☐
Answer: A) In order to effectively manage work/personal life priorities it is Comment:

necessary to prioritize all tasks on the basis of their urgency. Another strategy
that can be used is setting fixed working hours and sticking to them so that the
work allotted to time can be used strategically.
B) It is necessary to work on a schedule time. Time management will help in
organising workload and getting things done on time. It is necessary to prepare
a time table to arrange tasks and perform all the tasks accordingly (Toprak,Nay
and et. al., 2020).
C)I would inform my immediate senior in order to discuss the difficulties I am
facing in the work environment. I may discuss my point of view and some
suggestions in order to make positive and healthy working environment.
These advices
will help to
develop a
healthy
working
environment
managing all
the tasks and
balance
between work
and personal
life.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Mitchell, J. T. (2020). Critical Incident Stress Management: A Comprehensive, Intergrative,
Systematic, and Multi-Component Program for Supporting First Responder
Psychological Health. In Mental Health Intervention and Treatment of First
Responders and Emergency Workers (pp. 103-128). IGI Global.
Parkyn, M., & Wall, T. (2020).Workplace Stress Management. Good Health and Well-Being,
810-822.
Heredia, A. and et. al. (2020). Effectiveness of a psychological intervention focused on stress
management for women prior to IVF. Journal of Reproductive and Infant
Psychology, 38(2), 113-126.
Toprak, D., Nay and et. al., (2020). Resilience in adolescents and young adults with cystic
fibrosis: A pilot feasibility study of the promoting resilience in stress management
intervention. Pediatric Pulmonology, 55(3), 638-645.
Barroso, J., Madisetti, M., & Mueller, M. (2020).A feasibility study to develop and test a
cognitive behavioral stress management mobile health application for HIV-related
fatigue. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 59(2), 242-253.