An analysis and study on stress management and its implementation

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

20 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

05/05/2009

Category :

Business & market

Sub category :

Management

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Summary :

Introduction
What is stress?
Categories of stress
Stress and its characteristics
1. Stress is physical
2. Stress is psychological
3. Stressors
4. Levels of stress
Personal stress
1. Causes of personal stress
Organisational stress
Short term stress
Long term stress
Managing stress
Personality types
Time management
Presentation idea
Organizational stress management
Case studies
1. Fortune 50 companies
2. Personal products companies
3. Federal agencies
4. Reorganization stress of Fortune 100 companies
The company stress test form
1. Suggestions to employees
Modern organizational stress management techniques
Measures taken to improve the situation:
Benefits
Conclusion
Bibliography
Sources

Abstract

Only recently has stress been seen as a contributory factor to the productivity and health costs of companies and countries. As studies of stress-related illnesses and deaths show, stress imposes a high cost on individual health and well-being as well as organizational productivity. There are books now, which review the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress and strategies to confront stress and its associated problems.

stress is a complex phenomenon. It has been defined in many ways, but simply put; it is the wear and tear of everyday life.

In everyday's life people are subjected to a wide range of pressures. Similarly there are also a wide range of resources and strategies for coping with pressure. Sometimes people cope well and will not feel that the pressure is having any adverse effect upon them. At other times they will have difficulty in dealing with the situation and that is when we may use the term "stress".

In reality, any situation that puts pressure is technically "stressful". stress is not necessarily unpleasant or harmful. When people are able to cope satisfactorily with the stress and find it to be positive in its effect, they tend to use other words - such as "stimulation" or "challenge".

In this regard a simple but accurate definition of stress is:
"stress occurs when the pressures upon us exceed our resources to cope with those pressures."
It follows, therefore, that we can attempt to tackle stress either by reducing the pressures or by increasing our coping resources - or, indeed, a combination of both strategies.

The problem is that different people find quite different situations and circumstances to be stressful. At the extremes, a situation which one person experiences as positive and stimulating will cause another person acute distress.