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Discussion on: Workplace Stress and How Organization can Manage them

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Stress is the way your body respond to emotional, social, physical and economic factors. As defined by the Safety (2018), “Workplace stress is the harmful physical and emotional responses that can happen when there is a conflict between job demands on the employee and the amount of control an employee has over meeting these demands.”

Workplace stress can both be negative and positive. Positive stress might take you towards your goals and rise to challenge such as meeting the deadlines, reaching the targets, getting into new venture and so on.While negative stress leads to exhaustion, dissatisfaction from work, frustration, work fatigue, panic attacks due to work overload which may lead to increase in blood pressure, panic attacks, depression, errors in judgement, decrease in efficiency in work and resigning of employees.

Organization must develop healthy responses and keep proper communication channel with their constituents to manage stress in the workplace. Besides that, there are various ways of managing stress in the organization:

Job design

Job design includes organizing and clarifying tasks which results in reducing conflict and ensure some level of control and autonomy at work. By improving the workplace relationships and controlling/supervision, it will be easy for the managers to delegate the responsibilities. For example, The work of a clerk to the higher level officers work has been clarified in an organization which helps in reduce the work load on one person.

Targets and performance standards

By setting reachable targets, employee feels less burden and pressure in achieving the goals. This helps in maintain the performance standards and levels inside the firm. For example, Company A wants to increase the sales targets in the year 2018. To meet the sales, the company should drive their performance towards increasing sales. For that they need lower their expense and do more promotion and marketing of their company.

Job placement

Job placement plays a vital role in managing the stress inside the organization. For example, Ram is qualified for the post of Managing Director but he assigned to do the work of middle level. While Shyam is a fresher and has cleared his bachelor but still appointed as managing Director. This will result in imbalance in the work schedule of the employees and leads to stress to the employee. Hence, it is very necessary appoint the right person at the right place.

Career development

Any employee joins the organization with the hope of building a long term career.Organization must provide opportunities for growth by promoting the staff according to their work contributions and their abilities.

Performance management processes

It allows a dialogue to take place between managers and individuals about the latter’s work problems and ambitions (Armstrong, 2012). It is shared understanding between the employee and employee regarding the contributions of an individual to an organizations which leads in reducing the frustration between them.

Counselling

Counselling sessions helps to remove the work pressure and understand the desired goals want to be achieved by an organization. It is a kind of Psychology therapy for employees paid by an employer. For example, Job security that includes Compensation, allowance, overtime, insurance policy.

Anti-bullying campaigns

Bullying is an illegal activity. The anti bullying campaigns saves employees from vulnerable situations and motivate them to work more systematically.

References
Armstrong, M. (2012). Armstrongs’ Leadership Challenge. London : Kogan Page.

Gill, A. (2016). 5 simple Ways to Effectively Manage Workplace Sress. Saxons Blog.

Safety, C. C. (2018, April 9). Workplace Stress. Retrieved from Can "workplace stress" be defined?: ccohs.ca/oshanswers/psychosocial/s...