Stress
is an emotion that everyone deals with. It is a huge factor in influencing our
day-to-day obligations because it can hinder our judgments and cause us to make
irrational decisions. Managing your stress can be a difficult task, especially
if you work. Having to worry about your work obligations on top of any home, or
school obligations can send your body into an emotional roller coaster. Being
emotional stable at work is the most important type of wellness. It is
important that nothing affects your work or causes you to make any errors. All
jobs are important and have important aspects. You do not want to be
responsible for anything that could cause your business to fail because their employers
couldn’t get their stress and emotional well being under control.
There
are tons of definitions of what stress actually is. I have paired it with
emotional well being because stress is in fact an emotion. It is how someone
feels and stress can also be the result of being physically disable. This is a
direct result of feeling like you need help. In this case, stress management
directly relates emotional wellness in the workplace because everyday everyone
is asking for help in their jobs so they can be better successful. There are
many definitions of stress that I have found in the International Journal of
Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences:
“First, stress could be an
environmental stimulus. Environmental events that make demands on the person
partly are tolerable and not stressful. Second, stress might be a reaction by
the person to the extra burden. Finally, stress can be an unknown body reaction
to a demand that lead to pressure or stress in reaction or response conditions.
In other word, as mentioned, different response of stress in different people
and conditions are different” (Giga, L.Cooper, & Faragher, 2003, P.281).
The different forms of stress all have one thing in common;
“the reason of stress is a physical or emotional stimulation and the person
responses to it in a specific manner,” (Behdad, Jahanian, Tabatabaei, 2012).
One factor or two can cause stress. Being stressed causes emotional stimuli.
The most important part of a job is
your ability to make decisions. There is nothing stronger than an employee who
can make such important decisions and make the right ones. Every decision can
be undone but who wants to deal with the stress that comes with it.
“Stress is a regular part of life
and any job. Everybody deals with stress sooner or later, and most of us deal
with it every day. Without stress, workers cannot meet deadlines; strive to
meet satisfaction of the clients, which is required for the job. Meeting the
demands of a job makes the work interesting and satisfying and often allows
people to develop their skills and achieve promotion,” (Satsangi).
From the article, Stress
Management in the Workplace written by Mr. Alok Satsangi, a research
scholar at Singhania University, he describes good stress and bad stress. The
major difference is how you deal with it and the cause and effect aspect of
your decisions. Stress is something you cannot avoid, especially at work.
Satsangi explains that workplace stress can be caused by, “unsupportive working environment, high
demands of the job, or poor organizational communication.” The main confusion lies
with the fact that many think the trigger to job stress is the challenges that
workers face. This confusion exists because we believe that when we get relief
after we meet certain challenges or expectations, the satisfaction lifts our
stress and we feel free. In reality, the challenges are more physiological.
Too much stress in the work place
can lead to more serious health issues such as injury. Not being cautious at
work is the cause of most injuries. Job stressed is characterized as being the
physical and emotional responses that occur when the jobs obligations don’t
match the needs of the worker. In other terms, if employee’s expectations of
the workplace environment and tasks don’t motivate them to complete such tasks
and obligations, then the body becomes stressed. The overwhelming sensation of
having to do things we aren’t prepared for is what I would say is the main
cause of stress in the work place.
Ways to manage your stress don’t come
easy. High stress jobs are the only jobs out there. If you think that you are
going to start a job and not have stressful days where your emotions get the
best of you. Daily decisions you make at work are directly based on you
attitude. If you are emotional unfit for the day then that only reflects bad on
you. Times where you feel emotionally drained, you should consider taking
personal days and reflecting on getting yourself back together again. You don’t
want any emotional constrictions to cloud your judgments at home. The
recommendations of Cartwright and Cooper suggest asking for help when feeling
like you have too much of a work load and that checking to make sure your doing
things correctly is not a bad thing. It never hurts to ask for help when
feeling emotional over worked. Again, stress is apart of all our daily lives.
In the workplace stress increases with duties, and responsibilities. Emotional
wellness could overall be described as the foundation for a healthy work
environment.
References
Cartwright, S., &
Cooper, C. L. (1997). Managing workplace stress (Vol. 1). SAGE
Publications,
Incorporated. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Sz8dNR9NmkkC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=managing++stress+in+the+workplace&ots=PZsKW0oYiK&sig=7f2IH5NGS4whmEUX_sAwbtpdEzw
Jahanian, R., Tabatabaei, S. M., & Behdad, B.
Stress Management in the Workplace.
http://www.hrmars.com/admin/pics/1269.pdf
Satsangi, M. A. Stress Management in the
Workplace. FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK, 92.
http://www.bsb.edu.in/WisdomVyoage2011.pdf#page=93
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