Effective Stress Management: A Guide for Employees - SUSS PSY367

This presentation offers a comprehensive guide to effective stress management for employees within corporate organizations. It begins by defining stress and highlighting its adverse effects on both physical and mental well-being, emphasizing the prevalence of workplace stress. The presentation explores organizational stress factors such as excessive work pressure, lack of support, and workplace harassment, and delves into stress theories including Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome, Lazarus's theory, and the Conservation of Resources theory. It further examines the impacts of stress, including sleep deprivation, digestive problems, and reduced performance, and offers strategies for managing stress at both organizational and individual levels, such as creating a healthy work environment, fostering positive relationships, and promoting work-life balance. The presentation concludes by underscoring the joint responsibility of organizations and individuals in maintaining effective stress management at workplaces for overall development. Desklib provides more solved assignments and resources for students.

EFFECTIVE STRESS
MANAGEMNT
GUIDE FOR EMPLOYEES

Introduction
 Stress is referred to the adverse psychological issue that affect
human mind resulting from being exposed to pressure situations
 Stress causes prolonged fatigue and negatively impacts the physical
and mental aspects of the affected people
 Workplace Stress is a commonly reported issue across corporate
organizations
 Generally most people working within corporate environments suffer
from different levels of stress
 It is important for both the organizations and individual employees to
effectively tackle stress factors

Organizational Stress
 Organizational stress is created from being exposed to demanding
conditions that are present in organizational environments
 Globally 30% of the workers across corporate organizations face high
stress levels (Kurtessis et al., 2017)
 Workplace stress occurs due to factors that range between
organizational and individual stress elements

Organizational Stress Factors
 Excessive work pressure
 Low workload leading to the feeling
of underutilization
 Lack of organizational Support
 Pressure to perform out of expertise
job roles
 Lack of proper training resulting in
job role challenges
 Harassment or bullying at workplace
 Lack of proper management
 Poor environment for work
 Job uncertainty

Stress Theory
 Selye’s General Adaptaion theory is based on the physiological effect of stress on
humans (Brough Dollard & Tuckey, 2014)
 The theory discusses stress as an occurrence rising due to the imbalance
between resources and work oriented demands
 The Lazarus theory states that the process of stress is two-way in nature
(Brough Dollard & Tuckey, 2014)
 According to the theory stress levels depend on external stressors and individual
response to it

Stress Theory
 Conservation of resources theory deals with stress through
motivations and resources and their interrelated nature
 According to the theory the causes of psychological stress depended
on either threat of resource loss, loss of resource or lack of resources
gained (Brough Dollard & Tuckey, 2014)

Impact of Stress
 Higher levels of stress can cause sleep deprivation
 Stress can cause digestive problems in humans
 Excessive stress can result in aggressive behavior
 Negative emotional effects can result from stress
 High stress levels can cause loss of energy

Impact of Stress
 Excessive stress levels can cause lower
performance levels in office
 Too much stress can lead to complete
demotivation of the employee
 Higher levels of stress can drastically
reduce employee performances (Pfeffer
2014)
 In the worst case employees may suffer
from severe health conditions due to
great levels of stress
 Employees can develop various types of
phobias due to high stress

Managing Stress
 Organization should ensure a healthy working environment (Brough,
Dollard & Tuckey, 2014)
 Fun sessions and team lunch or eating sessions can be introduced
 Breaks can be increased for the employees
 Team leaders can share light-hearted moments with employees
 Healthy ambience can be created in the office with sweet smelling
fragrance and proper maintenance

Managing Stress
 Employees should keep a track of the stress factors
 Focus on creating healthy relationships with peers, managers and
subordinates
 Take short relaxation sessions at office
 Do mini-walks or other forms of exercises at office
 Inform management about stress causing issues
 Maintain effective cooperation with colleagues
 Establish strong work-life balance through division of personal and
professional boundaries (Brough, Dollard & Tuckey, 2014)

Conclusion
 Stress is a significant factor that affects corporate environments
 Negative effects of stress can affect both the employee and the
organization
 It is important that the employees and the organization develop a
cooperative environment for controlling stress
 Stress management is important towards organizational and
individual development
 It becomes a joint responsibility of organizations and individuals to
maintain essential stress management at workplaces.

References
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Pfeffer, J. (2014). Business and the spirit: Management practices that
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Brough, P., Dollard, M. F., & Tuckey, M. R. (2014). Theory and methods to
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