JB Hi-Fi: Managing Personal Work Priorities and Professional Growth

This report examines the management of personal work priorities and professional development within an organizational context, using JB Hi-Fi as a case study. It explores the history of the company and its approaches to employee development, emphasizing the significance of work-life balance for both employees and the organization. The report identifies signs and symptoms of workplace stress, distinguishing between group stress and work-related stress, and analyzes the detrimental effects of stress on employee well-being, workplace relationships, and personal life. It also outlines policies like the Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011 and the Anti-discrimination Act 1991. Furthermore, it suggests initiatives to mitigate stress, including time management strategies and flexible working hours. The report concludes by highlighting the importance of proactive measures to reduce employee stress and improve overall organizational performance and profitability.

MANAGE PERSONAL
WORK PRIORITIES AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
History of organisation and approaches of professionals for development of organisation .....3
Importance of work life balance to the employee and organisation..........................................4
sign and symptoms of stresses faced by employee working at workplace ...............................4
Effects of these stress on employee, workplace relation and their personal life .......................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Management of various types of works process in organisation aids to attain
goals and objectives of organisation. Organisation apply various approaches of professionals to
enhance quality of working processes inside organisation. Management took various approaches
to analyses priority of work which should be completed in stipulated time frame. It aids in
development of skills and knowledge of employee (Barrow, and Mosley, 2011). JB hi-Fi is
company deals manufacturing in Blue ray CD, various types of electronic gadgets, various
hardware. It also deals with retailing of consumer goods. Manager of organisation implement
various approaches to enhance productivity of organisation and also take various initiative steps
to enhance knowledge and skills of employee working in organisation.
TASK
History of organisation and approaches of professionals for development of organisation
JB Hi-Fi is Australian based company which was established in Melbourne. The owner of
company is John Barbuto who started business in 1974 but it was again sold to Richard Bouris,,
David Rodd, and Peter Caserta. They are professionals who explore company into a chain of ten
stores in Melbourne and Sydney . After sometimes it was again sold to private company which
emphasis Australian Stock Exchange. Manager of company took various approaches of
professional in order to develop environment of workplace to increase pace of productivity of
products. It implement various practical program which enhance skills and knowledge of
employee working in organisation.
Management of organisation implement new and innovative methods of training
for employee of organisation. It aids to enhance effectiveness in work process of employee.
Organisation focus on to implement advance technology which is concerned with manufacturing
of electronic product. In order to attain goals and objective organisation took various initiatives
to enhance performance of employee working at workplace. Organisation implement a team of
experts which analyse performance of employee and took corrective measures to solve issues

during working at workplace. It aids to set the target for company and apply various strategies to
accomplishment of target of organisation.
Importance of work life balance to the employee and organisation
Work life balance is important for employee because it give supportive, healthy
environment in organisation. It established team spirit in order to achieve target of organisation.
It also aids to enable a balance between work and personal responsibilities of employee working
in organisations. In present scenario employee have many competitive work like caring of their
children, their housework, volunteering etc. it leads to create work life conflicts which causes
serious problems which impact life of employee working in organisation it reduce performance
of employee (Connors, 2011). Due to long working hour high stressful works it lead to affect
ability of doing work of employee. It also affect health risks which leads to increase smoking and
alcohol consumption weight gain and depression work life conflicts creates various implication
of employees.
In order to enhance performance of organisation management should focus on to
implementation of advance technology to reduce pressure of work at workplace. Manager should
motivate their employee to achieve goals and objectives of organisation. Manger should
implement various measures to solve various issues of employee. Implementation of flexible and
short working hour aids to enhance the performance of employee. JB Hi-Fi implement various
strategies in order to enhance performance of organisation like it implement flexible working
hour for employee which aid to maintain performance of employee. Management give
responsibility to each one of employee to reduce the workload. Employee's satisfaction in their
personal life aids to enhance ability to perform the work in efficient manner.
sign and symptoms of stresses faced by employee working at workplace
Stress is an inevitable feature of life, as per view of psychologists it is the reaction
happen in body which affect individuals physically, mentally, and emotional adjustment. It is
force wake up in early morning, it motivates at gyming and also inspire individuals to work. But
there is different scenario in organisation. There are various type of stress which is faced by
employee working in organisation. Due to this factor it reduce performance of employee and
decrease working abilities of employee working in organisation (Ward and Wolf-Wendel,2012).

There are two type of stress which is followed by employee of JB Hi-Fi organisation which are
given below: Group Stress : This is kind of stress which is created by team leader of group of JB HI-
Fi organisation. Members of group involve in politics inside organisation leads to put
stress on particular individual lack of coordination between team members result in
incompletion of task in stipulated time frame. The symptom of this stress is raising
conflict among members of group. An individual suffers from irritation and
dissatisfaction which causes various types of health issues (DuFour, 2011).
 Stress at work : While working in organisation employee faces lots of work stress during
working hours. Stress created by management of organisation for accomplishment of
tasks which has to complete in stipulated time frame. Employee feel stress at workplace
due to incompleteness of task as per time period. Symptoms of this type of stress is lack
of coordination between employee, raise of conflicts in organisation between employee
and management level.
Effects of these stress on employee, workplace relation and their personal life
Workplace stress attain from various sources in organisation. It can related demand made
by customer,annoying co-workers, which affect relationship life of employee individually as
well as in society. Stress give negative impacts on employee working in organisation. Sometimes
severe accident take place which faced by employee which leads to loss of life of employee due
to stress. Due to stress lots of conflicts rises in among the employee which reduce performance
of work of employee. It is major contributor to job burn out and strained interaction with peers
and supervisor. It creates sense of frustration to employee making him inefficient to work in
organisation. The effect of group stress leads to lose of confidence level of employee which leads
to reduce effectiveness in work. Stress is hazardous to health of employee. Employee suffers
from various type disease like weight gain, irritation, inability of decision making, hypertension
visual person etc.
Environment of JB Hi-Fi creates a lot of stress on employee because of tight
scheduling of duty shift of long working hour. It creates lots of stress on employee working in
organisation. It affect life of employee because employee have no time to to interact with family
members this creates a feeling of loneliness to employee by which employee get irritated. It leads

to reduce work performance of employee in organisation. It creates lack of coordination among
the group of employees working in organisation (Frost, 2012).
Policy to manage health of employee at workplace.
In order to resolve health issues of employee organisation should take various initiative
steps to maintain the health of employee which is created by pressure given by organisation .
There are various act which like work health and safety Act 2011 and Anti-discrimination Act
1991 which provide by government in order to protect health of employees working in
organisation. These act is imposed and ruled in various organisation in order to maintain health
of organisation. The description of mentioned are as follows:
Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011
This act was come into existence 2011 by Australian government in order to maintain
health of employee working in various organisation. This act a safeguard to employee which is
related to health and safety of employee. This act provide protection to employees,
contractor,subcontractor outworkers, apprentices and trainees etc. This act provide protection to
general public also so that the health and safety is not placed at risk by working activity. This act
bound various organisation not maintain flexibility in duty hours . Organisation should use short
duty shift so that there will some issue arises related to health of employee working in the
organisation. Management of organisation set appropriate target for employees which ca be
achieved by easily without creating any work stress ion employee (Gustafson, 2012).
Anti-discrimination act 1991 : This act is also termed as Queensland Anti- Discrimination Act
this was framed in 1991 to provide protection against unfair discrimination,sexual harassment
and other objectionable conduct done in organisation. According to this act management don't
have right to discriminate worker related to their education, supply goods training session,
disposing of land. This act is implemented to monitor various issue which are related to various
discrimination, harassment, victimisation and other contravention.
Initiatives taken by organisation to overcome from stress
There are various initiative steps which is taken by organisation in order to overcome
from stress of employee. Initiative steps taken by organisation to overcome from group stress are
given below:
 To overcome from group stress organisation need to motivate the members of employee
to accomplish assigned target.

 Proper training given to leader so it can manage other team members of group.
 Implementation of various innovative techniques by organisation so that task assigned by
organisation can completed in stipulated time frame (Roper and Payant, 2014).
 Divide responsibility according to efficiency of employee so that proper collaboration
should be established among members of group.
Organisation should implement various step to overcome from stress at workplace which are
given below:
control allocation of time and goals : Organisation should set realistic goals and time for
accomplishment of work in organization. It should be proper scheduling of work procedure so
that the stress of work can be distributed among the team to reduce the workload (Hoefling,
2012).
Reconsider all meetings : This is essential purpose to reconsidered the agenda of meetings. The
main advantages of such meeting to analyses the impact of work pressure of task on employee
working in organisation. Management should analyses level of stress at workplace (Hood, 2013).
Manager should implementation of short duty hour which aids to maintain effectiveness in
performance of work. Management should implement flexible duty hour so that employee could
not feel stress at workplace. This aids to attain goals and objective of organisation. The
management of JB Hi-Fi should focus on to implementation of flexible and short working hour
which aids to maintain the capability of working performance of employee.
Managing work stress at workplace
While performing activities at workplace there are various issues which are related to
above mentioned issues. It leads to hamper the effectiveness of work at working place of
organisation. Lack of coordination between employee of organisation which disturb the work
procedure of organisation and task could not be completed in time. This create lots workload on
organisation. This impact resignation of employee from organisation which leads to reduce
performance of organisation. Management has to recruit new employee for completion of task
before implementing them for job management should give properly training to new Joneses
which creates lots of expenses and time to trained employees of organisation. It creates a lot of
workload for organisation which affect effectiveness of work performance of organisation.
There are various other issue which affect work performance of employees like
stereotypic nature of employee about organisation. It reduce the workforce of organisation which

reduce effectiveness of work. Stress demotivate working procedure of employee which hampers
procedures of assigned task. It reduce profitability of organisation. It creates loss of venture of
organisation. In order to maximise profitability of organisation it is necessary for organisation to
take initiatives to reduce stress from employee (Hohnen and Hasle, 2011).
CONCLUSION
As per mention report it has been concluded that stress is vital factor which affect
working style of employee of organisation. Due to impact of stress employee do not able to
perform their task properly. It create lack of coordination among member of group in
organisation. Group stress ids the factor which affect working capabilities of employees . It also
demotivate morale of employee which creates lots of pressure on mindset of employee. Due to
this employee of organisation affected from different types disease which reduce man power of
organisation. Due to this lots of stress create on other employees of organisation which is affect
the effectiveness of work performance of organisation. JB Hi-Fi organisation should take proper
initiatives to reduce the work pressure from employee working in organisation. Organisation
should implement various strategies like for remuneration of employee, giving compensation to
employee, provide medical facilities to employee for regular check up,and also implement
flexible duty hours for employee working in organisation.

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APPENDIX
Checklist for Final Report
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Identify the Organisation
Discuss background of organisation, including any professional development being carried out
(research on your company)
Explain the importance of work life balance to the employees and the organisation
(general research on work life balance in Australian businesses and why important in any organisation)
Identify two stresses being faced by the employees and list the signs and symptoms that indicate the employee(s) is under s
(what are stressors in the workplace and then identify and explain 2 relevant ones for your organisation and why)
Discuss how these affect (1) the employee output, (2) workplace relations and (3) their personal life
(general research on the affects and then specific research where you relate to your organisation)
Name the organisational policy any legislative requirement relation to manage health in the workplace
(Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011 – COMPLUSORY
(Privacy Act 1998 OR Anti-Discrimination ACT 1991)
Check to see if business has an Employee Well-being policy
Discuss how the organisation can overcome the problem (relate back to the two stresses you identified
General research followed by specific research into your business.
Discuss what can be done to prevent stress. This could be conclusion. Relate to your business.
Discuss any other issues related to the issue