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Defining Stress • Stress is defined as an organism's total response to an environmental condition or stimulus. • Stress typically describes a negative condition that can have an impact on an organism's mental and physical well-being. SPR Stress Management 2

Stress Management Stress management refers to reduce negative stress and to provide positive feelings of being in control of one's life and promote general well-being. SPR Stress Management 3

Eustress • Positive or helpful consequences Distress • Negative consequences • - Hans Selye

Stress in Organization • People in organization become under stress due to various reasons. • Different people experience and handle work-related stress differently. • Some people are more distressed out by a particular situation than others. . SPR Stress Management 5

• What is more stressful for one person may not be stressful for others. • Stress varies from person to person depending upon – personality, perception, and response SPR Stress Management 6

Techniques to Cope with Stress • • • Relaxation Deep breathing Conflict resolution Time management Social activity Exercise Meditation Natural medicine Planning and decision-making Listening relaxing music prayer

Causes of Work-Related Stress • Work culture and practices • Poor relationship with superior, subordinates, and peers • Poor work life balance • Organizational structure • Managerial confusions • Tight dead-lines • Resource constraints • Systemic defects SPR Stress Management 8

Impacts of Work-related Stress 1. Physical hazards - Wanting to cry unnecessarily - Feeling of inability to cope - Short temperedness at work and home - Loss of appetite - Inability to plan, concentrate, and control work - Loss of motivation - Commitment SPR Stress Management 9

2. Physical and Emotional Health Hazard • • • Muscular tension Backache and neck ache Cold and other infections Difficulty to sleep Digestive problem Increased sweating Skin rashes Blurred vision Raised heart rate SPR Stress Management 10

As work pressure is impossible to avoid completely, it is important to learn to manage and keep stress at a comfortable level. How? . . . SPR Stress Management 11

Techniques for Managing Stress • Control time allocation and goals – causes stress more schedules what one can handle. • Learning to Say “No” if one is overloaded. • Prioritize and Complete all time-bound commitments. • Meeting Management – fix agenda and time. • Time Management –basis of TM is the ability to control events. • Make Time Decision Based on Analysis. • SPR Attain Balance Between Work and Life. Stress Management 12

Major Issues About Control 1. Some things are uncontrollable. Trying to control the uncontrollable is a key cause of stress and unhappiness. 2. Feeling not in control is the enemy of time management. 3. Feeling not in control is one of the major causes of stress in our daily lives too. SPR Stress Management 13

Techniques of Analyzing Time Decisions • Look at how you currently divide your time. • Do you get unimportant things completed first as they are easy? • Do you focus your efforts on the things that will really make a difference for you and your organization? SPR Stress Management 14

Activities/Events vs. Priority Setting • Not urgent and not important • Urgent but not important • Not urgent but important • Urgent and important SPR Stress Management 15

Causes of Delay Actions • You do not know how to do the task. • You do not like to do the task. • You feel indecisive about how to approach the task. SPR Stress Management 16

Techniques of Overcoming Delay Actions • Breaking the large project into as many small, manageable, instant tasks as possible. • Make a written list of every task. • List the small tasks on your daily, prioritized to do list. • Reward yourself upon completion. SPR Stress Management 17

Managing Stress in Workplace ‘Fight-or-Flight’ Approach

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