Importance of Stress Management at Workplace

What is stress?

Stress is the body’s way of responding to any kind of demand.it could be negative or positive.

1. Demands

This includes the demands of the workload and the work environment. The times when employees feel work stress could be:

• harsh deadlines and expectations

• technology overload

• unmanageable workloads

• long work hours

2. Lack of Control

Lack of control at workplace means how much authority employees have about the way they do their work.

Lack of consultation in the way in which work is organized and performed can be a potential source of pressure, for example:

• Little control over aspects of the job

• Not enough involvement in decision making

• Lack of time

• To help ensure the above does not happen, it is important that employees have control over their own pace of work and are encouraged to use their unique skills and initiatives to do their work.

3. Minimal Support

It’s always important to know that we are supported in what we do. Knowing that your colleagues and management support you, will boost up your energy and make your give your best. However, having no support or very little, can lead to feelings of frustration.

A company should have the following in place to ensure employees are supported in their role:

• Policies and procedures to support employees.

• Systems in place for employees to encourage their colleagues, including workplace stress management training.

• Make employees aware of where they can find support and how to access it.

4. Role uncertainty

• Work related stress can be caused when an employee does not understand their role completely if they have not been given adequate training to carry out their role.

• Role uncertainty and conflict decreases workers’ performance and are positively related to the probability of workers leaving the company. All roles should be clearly defined and information should be made available to employees on this, so they can fully understand the scope of their role.

5. Work-life Balance Issues

A common topic that is never going to go away, until we get it right. The pressure of an increasingly demanding work culture is perhaps the biggest and most pressing challenge to the mental health of the general population.

• Long hours

• Over demanding and inflexible work schedules

• Pressure on family relationships

• Unsocial working hours

• Excessive travel time

• Work interfering with home/personal life

Techniques for self-dealing with workplace stress: -

Stay Organized

Even if you’re a naturally disorganized person, planning ahead to stay organized can greatly decrease stress at work. Being organized with your time means less rushing in the morning to avoid being late and rushing to get out at the end of the day. Keeping yourself organized means avoiding the negative effects of bad people and being more efficient with your work.

Walk at Lunch

Many people are feeling ill effects from leading the same lifestyle. One way you can get rid of that, and manage stress at work at the same time, is to get some exercise during your lunch break and take short exercise breaks throughout the day. This can help you lift your mood, and get into better shape.

Listen to Music on the Drive Home

Listening to music brings many benefits and can offer an effective way to relieve stress after work. Getting relieved of the stress of a long day at work with your favorite music on the drive home can make you less stressed when you get home, and more prepared to interact with the people in your life.

Take A Deep Breath

If you're feeling overwhelmed or are coming out of a tense meeting and need to clear your head, a few minutes of deep breathing will restore balance. Simply inhale for five seconds, hold and exhale in equal counts through the nose.

Be Your Own Best Critic

Instead of being harsh and critical of yourself, try pumping yourself up. Encouraging thoughts will help motivate you to achieve and ultimately train you to inspire others.

At my workplace there was a man whom everybody calls as bimbo. He is the kind of person who is not ready to talk to anyone and is always working alone and continuously the thoughts are running in his mind. Being a team leader, it is my responsibility to talk to such people and ask them if they are facing any problems at work or why is he always in so much stress.

After talking to him he told me that he is going through some financial problems and the company is not paying him the overtime he is doing at work. And he is afraid that if he leaves this job he might not get another one so quickly. This was the reason that lead him to be so stressful and a very quiet person.

After listening this, I made him feel comfortable by saying him that taking stress is no good thing for his work and for his health as well. Every problem has a solution. Instead of thinking about the situation again and again, he should go and talk to the manager about the problem and get it solved.

And if the manager does not do anything then he should talk to the owner about the problem and ask about his rights. 

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