Local Stress
Foreword
One of the missions of Occupational Safety and Health Council (OSHC) is to provide diversified and quality service with a view to enhancing the level of occupational safety and health in Hong Kong. The Council has been maintaining a close contact with local employers, employees, professionals, academic bodies and different government departments to create a pleasant working environment for employees. It is the Council's intention to tailor-make a work stress management framework for use by local employees for coping with stress problems in the workplace. To do so, an awareness of the sources and effects of stress on employees is paramount. In 2004, the Council commissioned the Department of Politics and Sociology of Lingnan University to conduct an in-depth research into the occupational stress problems in Hong Kong and produce a stress management DIY kit for employees' use. The project with Lingnan University was undertaken in three stages. The first stage was a large scale telephone survey to identify the high stress industries. Ten organizations representative of different industrial sectors were invited to take part in an intervention study, in which a tailor-made stress management training programme and different sessions of consultation were tried out on employees. The purposes of this stage were to single out, if possible, common factors causing stress and identify factors that can help to moderate stress in different industries. With the experience drawn from the intervention, stress management strategies and intervention policies were then formulated. This study comprises a summary of statistical findings and management experience as shared by the participant organizations and a brief literature review of models and research findings from the literature of the East and the West about occupational stress management. The key findings are presented in this DIY Kit in a user-friendly approach to make sure people from different walks of life could
One of the missions of Occupational Safety and Health Council (OSHC) is to provide diversified and quality service with a view to enhancing the level of occupational safety and health in Hong Kong. The Council has been maintaining a close contact with local employers, employees, professionals, academic bodies and different government departments to create a pleasant working environment for employees. It is the Council's intention to tailor-make a work stress management framework for use by local employees for coping with stress problems in the workplace. To do so, an awareness of the sources and effects of stress on employees is paramount. In 2004, the Council commissioned the Department of Politics and Sociology of Lingnan University to conduct an in-depth research into the occupational stress problems in Hong Kong and produce a stress management DIY kit for employees' use. The project with Lingnan University was undertaken in three stages. The first stage was a large scale telephone survey to identify the high stress industries. Ten organizations representative of different industrial sectors were invited to take part in an intervention study, in which a tailor-made stress management training programme and different sessions of consultation were tried out on employees. The purposes of this stage were to single out, if possible, common factors causing stress and identify factors that can help to moderate stress in different industries. With the experience drawn from the intervention, stress management strategies and intervention policies were then formulated. This study comprises a summary of statistical findings and management experience as shared by the participant organizations and a brief literature review of models and research findings from the literature of the East and the West about occupational stress management. The key findings are presented in this DIY Kit in a user-friendly approach to make sure people from different walks of life could