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Coping With Workplace Stress
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Defining stress at work can be difficult and incredibly subjective for each individual. There is a difference between stress and pressure. Everyone experiences pressure on a daily basis and some people need pressure to motivate them. The definition of stress is a persons perception of the demands and pressures placed upon them and their ability to cope with those demands. Therefore, some people will cope with work place pressure much better than others. This can be for many reasons, some people are already experiencing pressure and stress at home, which will come with them to work and add to the pressure they are feeling in the workplace.
There are two areas to look at when experiencing work place stress.
The Management Standards
The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) have set out six areas of work which can have a negative impact on employee health if not properly managed.
They are:
Demands
Control
Support
Relationships
Role
Changes
In all of the above, communication is vital to a full understanding and acceptance by employees. The ultimate result is a happy and productive workforce which makes economic and commercial sense in the long term from a business point of view. These standards are explored further in our training courses and can be found from the HSE in more detail.
However, from a personal point of view, employees need to be healthy and stress free, so concern and understanding shown in the work place can only have a beneficial effect to everyone in the short and long term.
Lifestyle
In order to control the personal side of stress it is vital to understand the way stress is affecting our lifestyles.
Most stressed people do not eat at the right time, or eat the wrong foods.
Exercise is usually the last activity a stressed person will consider.
The tension building up in a stressed person's body will generally manifest itself in the neck, shoulders and sometimes, back and arms. The resulting ailments can include tension headaches, overuse injury in arms and hands and, ultimately, lack of sleep.
Therefore, lifestyle must be addressed when tackling work related stress with all levels of employees. This could be the workforce who are experiencing stress due to shift work, managers who find responsibility difficult to cope with and need help identifying stress in their own staff as well as coping with personal stress, or senior management and directors who are unaware that their stress is filtering through the organisation to create a workplace of stress, from the top down.
Stress is often a symptom of poor employment relations and can seriously affect productivity. Organisations who talk regularly with their employees and have sound systems and procedures in place for dealing with issues like absence and discipline are much more likely to avoid work-related stress and to be able to deal with potentially stressful situations when they arise. ACAS
Workplace stress is one of the biggest causes of employee absence and also one of the more difficult issues to manage. The Management Standards will help employers identify and manage stress at work by providing a framework to pinpoint particular causes of stress, as well as achievable solutions. CIPD
For further information on Management Standards, Coping with stress training or general stress management and lifestyle advice, send your details through the contact tab in this website or write to us via the blog.
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