- Low to moderate level of stress, may be functional and lead to higher employee performance.
- High level of stress, even low levels sustained over long period, can lead to reduced employee performance and thus, require action by management.
- Personal responsibility for reducing his or her stress level
- Time management, increasing physical exercise, relaxation training and expanding the social support network.
- Well organized employee, can often accomplishes twice as much the person who is poorly organized.
- Time management principles:
- Making daily list of activities to be accomplished.
- Prioritizing activities by importance and urgency
- Scheduling activities according to the priorities set
- Knowing your daily cycle and handling the most demanding parts of your job during high part of your cycle when you are most alert and productive.
- Physical Exercise:
- Aerobics, walking, jogging, swimming and riding a bicycle.
- Increase heart rate, mental division from work pressure.
- Relaxation Techniques:
- Meditation, hypnosis and biofeedback
- State of deep relaxation, feels physically relaxed, detached from the immediate environment, detached from body sensation.
- Social support network:
- Friends, family or work colleagues to talk
- Tension reduction, someone to hear your problems
- Factors that causes stress: task and role, demand, organizational structure
- Improved selection and placement decision
- Goal-setting: challenging goals, feedback.
- Training: increasing efficiency, less stress
- Redesigning jobs: autonomy, meaningful work, enrich
- Increasing employee involvement: decision making
- Improved organization communication: less ambiguity, reduce uncertainty
- Sabbatical(Leave, Time-out, study leave): granted at interval, leave, paid leaves
- Corporate wellness program: quit smoke, alcohol, lose weight, eat better.
(Ref: Organization behavior - S.P. Robbins)