Stress can be both positive and negative in an organisational setting, the latter posing serious risks for the individuals as well as the organisation. Although, positive stress, so called ‘eustress’, can have the potential for individuals to perform better and increase effectiveness in the workplace. Organisational researchers have come to understand the effects of mismanaged stress in the workplace and the question remains to wether ‘eustress’ actually do have a positive impact on effectiveness
emotional intelligence according to needs of employees shows meaningful impact on employees to reduce stress (Darvish & Nasrollahi, 2011). It shows significant impact on employees who involve in verity of tasks and roles and let the employees to cope up with stress enhance their efficiency and emotional relationships (Kalyoncu,Guney, Arslan,Guney & Ayranci, 2012). Adoption of emotional intelligence capable employees to cope with stress related problems and consequently increases employees’ attitudinal
Job stress is a chronic disease caused by conditions in the workplace that negatively affect an individual’s performance and/or overall well-being of his body and mind. One or more of a host of physical and mental illnesses manifests job stress. In some cases, job stress can be disabling. In chronic cases a psychiatric consultation is usually required to validate the reason and degree of work related stress. Symptoms The signs of job stress vary from person to person, depending on the particular
According to Jahanzeb (2010), due to increasing technological changes, mass retrenchment, information overload, and demand for greater productivity, fierce competition and uncertain future, the workplace has become a source of extreme stress. To remain in stride with the dynamic and ever-changing nature of today’s organizations, employees in the work place spend most of their time striving to meet their job obligations hence ignoring the “stressors” that have adverse
Ganesan 20879 PSYCOSOCIAL HAZARDs ABSTRACT Psychosocial hazards occurs in workplaces and it affected the workers to focus on their work. However, we still can find solution and the ways to solve and prevent from the psychosocial hazards happened. INTRODUCTION Psychosocial
Question 1 Stress is a leading of cause of mortality in the world (DeLongis, 1986). Indeed, it can result in many kinds of diseases but the most prominent are coronary heart disease, other vascular diseases like strokes and depression (DeLongis, 1986). This is why stress in the workplace has to be addressed since an adult will roughly spend a third of his life working (DeLongis, 1986) and therefore what Pamela is experiencing in her workplace should be addressed urgently. The stress theory of job
Despite to it, to control and manage stress there are several ways to do it. The first way to manage stress by doing exercise. For your information, exercise is one of the way to reduce stress. It acts as a natural painkiller whereby one’s body produce endorphins from physical activity, a type of chemical that it is in the brain and improve the ability of sleep which tends to reduce stress. Next, the second way to manage stress is by implementing good diet habits. By implementing
Stress is an unpleasant state of emotional and physiological arousal that people experience in situations that they perceive as dangerous or threatening to their well- being [1]. Lazarus and Folkman [2] define stress as a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as tasking or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being. According to Selye [3], stress is defined as the condition that can give rise to psychologically felt
Furthermore, the workplace environment is additionally an issue for employee retention in light of the way that there are different zones in business yet workplace particularly has been the objective of talk from numerous modern points of view. As indicated by Hytter (2008), The fascinating reality here is that the workplace perspectives are fundamentally unique when contrasted with administrations division and manufacturing divisions. In telecom division; that is considered as administrations where
1 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Introduction Considering the background of the study, it is apparent that workplace accidents are frequent in all the industries. These accidents result in severe consequences for the employees and the corporations as well. This chapter highlights all the previous studies that discuss the prevention of accidents in the workplace, the cause of these accidents and the benefits of reduced accident for organisations. 1.2 Practices of Avoiding Accidents The uncertainty