Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2017

Managing Stress: The tool to enhance productivity

Shruti Srivastava

Abstract :

 A healthy organization is defined as, “One that has low rates of illness, injury, and disability in its workforce and is also competitive in the marketplace.” Prewitt, Ron (2004). But due to globalization of the economy, use of new information and communications technology, growing diversity in the workplace and an increased mental workload, the workplace has changed dramatically.

The organizational characteristics like company size, hierarchical structure and job description leads to stressors, such as role conflict or role overload. These stressors may further lead to stress reaction or strains. Finally, strains can lead to problems like poor job performance, high levels of absenteeism, discontentment among the workforce, high turnover of labor with the loss of good employees, number of ill–health outcome such as cardiovascular diseases, blood pressure, mood and sleep disturbances, upset stomachs and headaches, and disturbed relationships with family and friends etc.

So we can see the potential outcomes of stress at work are rather diverse and do not only pertain to health but also to actual participation in the workforce.

Thus the focus of this paper is on the specific relevance of workplace risk assessments to help, educate and inform all personnel, especially managers, human resources, health, safety and welfare professionals. The paper includes a model of organizational stress highlighting the relationship between potential work–related stress hazards, individual and organizational symptoms of stress and negative outcomes. This will help to understand work–related stress seriously and actively work to improve and maintain employee’s health and wellbeing. 

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Shruti Srivastava, Managing Stress: The tool to enhance productivity, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-12 | December-2017

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