Collins, (2008) shows, Work Stress is a stress in an employee at work arises from the situation when the workplace expect more results beyond the ability and capability of an employee can achieve. In present life work stress is something that is spoken out mainly in organizations. When stress mess up with our lives, it really becomes a very big issue. Overloads of work stress for a very long period can cause harmful to both physical and emotional health of employee (Dar, etc, al, 2011)
Ahmed, etc, al, (2013) highlights, word "Stress" is a type of feeling with Physical and emotional tension. In the other word stress is something that your body's natural way of responding when it starts feeling danger. Here we are going to look into the term "Work Stress".
Ahmed, etc, al, (2013) highlights, word "Stress" is a type of feeling with Physical and emotional tension. In the other word stress is something that your body's natural way of responding when it starts feeling danger. Here we are going to look into the term "Work Stress".
Main causes of work stress
There are 2 main factors that causes work stress, they are Organizational factors and Individual factors
- Organizational factors
- low salary
- working for overtime
- unsafe and unhealthy working environment
- less promotional opportunities
- peer pressure
- poor communication
- strict rules and regulations
- managers trying to over control the employees
- family problems
- impatient
- personal financial issues
- aggressive
- You may lose concentration and confidence and may become very angry
- Doesn't show interest in work
- A very bad headache
- Feel irritating
- Sleeping problem
- Using alcohol
- loss of sex drive
Viljoen (2009) highlighted, There are many ways that Human Resource Management can help stressed employees to get through. It is important to take effective actions on it.It doesn't only benefits the employee but also helps in organizational development (Dar, etc, al, 2011)
- Should organize a mental health awareness training so that employee would get a good understanding of the issues
- buildup a healthy and safe working environment
- should keep encouraging the employees
- organize a flexible work arrangement
- Employee counseling :- its a best way to overcome the employee stress
Everyone who work knows and felt the pressure of work stress how it feels like at some point. The best saying about work stress :-
" A challenging and fulfilling job in a good workplace can be great, but if work starts to take over and we lose the balance, it gets stressful.The ability to have some control over your own workload definitely contributes to the impact work has on the life (Lifang, 2009)
References
Ahmed, A., & Ramzan, M. (2013). Effects of job stress on employees job performance: A study on banking sector of Pakistan. IOSR Journal of Business and Management, Vol. 11(6), pp. 61-68
Collins, S. (2008). Statutory social workers: Stress, job satisfaction, coping, social support and individual differences. British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 38(6), pp. 1173-1193
Dar, L., Akmal, A., Naseem, M. A., & din Khan, K. U. (2011). Impact of stress on employee’s job performance in business sector of Pakistan. Global Journal of Management and Business Research
Viljoen, J.P.(2009). Occupational stress, ill health and organizational commitment of employees at a university of technology. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, Vol. 35(1), pp. 400-421
Lifang, Z. (2009), Occupational stress and teaching approaches among Chinese academics‖, Educational Psychology, Vol.29(2), pp.203-219
According to Dr. Susan (2008) there are more symptoms of occupational ill health. Those are Diastolic blood pressure, Cholesterol concentration, heart rate, smoking
ReplyDeleteDepression mood, Escapist drinking, job dissatisfaction and reduces aspiration, which will eventually lead to Coronary heart disease & Mental ill health
Royal Free and University College Medical School (2008). Sources of Stress at Work. [image] Available at: https://oem.bmj.com/content/59/1/67 [Accessed 17 Apr. 2019].
This is good message for us regarding stress factors.when we are talking about health of
ReplyDeletethe employees stress mitigation must be essential. employees are stressed most likely to be unhealthy.
Employers cannot usually protect workers from stress arising outside of work, but they
can protect them from stress that arises through work.
Stress has an impact in occupational safety when you’re under stress, one of the things that is on your mind is the source of the stress. It creates a distraction. Let’s say an employee has got a sick parent in the hospital, and he/she gets to work and climbing a ladder or on scaffolding. While he/she walking along on the scaffolding, part of their attention is on where their walking and what they’re doing, but also part of the attention is on the sick parent in the hospital. Loss of focus or inattention is a major cause of injury.
ReplyDeleteStress is a legitimate worker safety and health issue. Some employees carry stress from their homes to their jobs. Others drag their work stress back home with them at night. Regardless, employees experience stress, and a stressed worker has the potential to be an unsafe worker. Therefore eliminating or reducing stress will lead to both health and safety of an employee.
This is good read, you have considered all aspect where stress can be. I'm not attached HR but this blog make me feel that I'm capable to manage my staff with considering all these.
ReplyDeleteStress can be defined as pressure work stress can be elaborated as resistance to come to work and a feeling of continuous pressure. Hence work stress is physical and emotional action that takes place when there is a gap between job requirements, capabilities and resources. Employees performance is an essential element of organization success. Employees performance can be significantly delayed by high levels of stress experienced in the work environment. Stress is a universal element and individual in every walk of life have to face it. The employees working in different organizations must deal with stress. The stress contributes to decreased organization performance, decreased employee’s overall performance, high staff turnover and absence due to health problems. (Islam et al, 2012)
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