Stress Management
TOPIC AT A GLANCE
Topic Name: Managing Stress at Work
Managing an over worked and stressed human resource have become a challenging and ever difficult task for today 's managers. With a view to utilize the available human resource thus minimizing costs and maximizing profits, today both managers and their subordinates have to coop with work related stress. This stress if it goes to certain extent without being controlled can affect the person 's family/social life, health, performance etc and changes the employee 's whole attitude towards work- frustrating, demotivating and frightening him/her which in the long run damages the organization and the employee both.
This paper will briefly examine the various stress-management interventions adopted by three reputed companies to improve efficiency in the work place
Key Words: Stringers, Biofeedback, stressors, Food exchange.
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Life is tough and getting tougher by the day! The stress of daily living, especially as the pressure to excel mounts, impacts everyone, not just on the work front but in every single area of an individual 's life In today 's world of doing more with less, employees find themselves with more work, fewer resources, and less time. With a tight deadlines and a competitive work environment only the best performers are guaranteed continued employment.
All of these factors add up to a very stressful work environment. Ultimately employees take work home and worry about missing deadlines or performing inadequately and end up working longer hours.
Stress can be caused by many things in life, pressures from work, the family, social commitments and other everyday events. The word stress is derived from the Latin term 'Stringers ' which means "to draw tight". Some define stress as the non-specific response of the body to any demands made on it. Stress is our physical, mental, and emotional
Topic Name: Managing Stress at Work
Managing an over worked and stressed human resource have become a challenging and ever difficult task for today 's managers. With a view to utilize the available human resource thus minimizing costs and maximizing profits, today both managers and their subordinates have to coop with work related stress. This stress if it goes to certain extent without being controlled can affect the person 's family/social life, health, performance etc and changes the employee 's whole attitude towards work- frustrating, demotivating and frightening him/her which in the long run damages the organization and the employee both.
This paper will briefly examine the various stress-management interventions adopted by three reputed companies to improve efficiency in the work place
Key Words: Stringers, Biofeedback, stressors, Food exchange.
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Life is tough and getting tougher by the day! The stress of daily living, especially as the pressure to excel mounts, impacts everyone, not just on the work front but in every single area of an individual 's life In today 's world of doing more with less, employees find themselves with more work, fewer resources, and less time. With a tight deadlines and a competitive work environment only the best performers are guaranteed continued employment.
All of these factors add up to a very stressful work environment. Ultimately employees take work home and worry about missing deadlines or performing inadequately and end up working longer hours.
Stress can be caused by many things in life, pressures from work, the family, social commitments and other everyday events. The word stress is derived from the Latin term 'Stringers ' which means "to draw tight". Some define stress as the non-specific response of the body to any demands made on it. Stress is our physical, mental, and emotional