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Stress Management
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According to CNN-Money.com, Americans
spent more than $17 billion for anti-
depressants and anti-anxiety drugs in 2002,
up 10% from the year before and nearly 30%
over a two year period.
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Concept of stress
- Individuals response to a disturbing factor in
the environment and the consequence of
such reaction.
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Stress can manifest itself in both a positive
way and negative way.
- Eustress is the term used to describe positive
stress.
Burn Out
Stress Burnout
- Fatigue - Chronic exhaustion
- Anxious - Hypertensive
- Dissatisfied - Bored
- Commitment drops - Commitment virtually nill
- Feels moody - Impatient,irriatble
- Lack of concentration -Doesn’t know where he is
- Physiological changes - Psychosomatic
complaints.
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Top 10 causes for stress at workplace
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Managing Stress
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Individual Approaches
a) Implement time management techniques
- Making the daily list of activities to be done
- Prioritsing the activities acc to the imp &
urgency.
- Scheduling the task as per the plan
- Handling the most demanding task during the
high part of your cycle when you are most
alert & productive.
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b) Increasing physical exercises.
- Walking,jogging,riding a bicycle have been
recommended by physicians.
-Reduce tension through relaxation techniques
-Meditation,yoga
-biofeedback
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c) Social support network
- friends
- family
- work colleagues can reduce tension.
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Organization Approaches
- Improved selection and placement
-Goal setting & feedback
- Redesign the job – give more autonomy,
greater control over their tasks
- Employee involvement in setting the goal &
expectation.
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- Increasing the formal organization
communication – reduce uncertainty – reduce
role ambiguity & role conflict
- Occasional Escape from frenetic pace of their
work
Nike,3Com,L.L.Bean provides extended
leaves – from a few weeks to a several
months.
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- Offer organizationally supported wellness
programs
They focus on employees total physical &
mental conditions.
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Employee Assistance Programme
- originally conceived as alcohol de-addiction
programme.
- Now deal with wide range of stress related
problems