Organizational and Individual Approaches in Managing Stress

Part A Organizational and Individual Approaches & Part B Organization Chart for Company
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Part A.
Issues that are related to stress are costly for any organization. These costs are related to absenteeism, accidents, and productivity losses. Therefore, the management of employee stress is an important function for both the organization and employee. Organizations can employ several strategies to deal with employee stress and these strategies include conducting a sound job selection and placement process. Here, individuals who have minimal work experience or possess an external locus of control a highly susceptible to stress. The organization can implement this by requiring a certain amount of years of experience during recruitment or selecting staff to perform a certain task (Smith, Farmer, & Yellowley, 2013).
In addition, the company can engage in goal setting and set SMART goals for their employees. This makes the expectations of the organization clear reducing employee frustration, role ambiguity, and consequently stress. This is achievable through, for example, setting daily production targets and requirements for each department and employee. Finally, the organization can engage conduct job redesign. The organization can achieve this by giving employees more responsibility, autonomy, and more meaningful work, for example, allowing a worker to work from his or her home (Smith, Farmer, & Yellowley, 2013).
An employee can also be responsible for managing or reducing his or her own levels o stress. There are several individual approaches that have proven effective in individual stress management, and they are; time management. Understanding and using the appropriate principles to manage time is crucial in coping with the demands of the job. For example, making a list of things to do in a particular a day and time (Weinberg, Cooper, & Sutherland, 2010). In addition, the individual can engage in non-competitive physical exercise, for example, jogging or swimming that are effective in relieving excess stress. Finally, there is relaxation training where an employee learns relaxation techniques to achieve a state of deep relaxation and are, for example, yoga and meditation (Weinberg, Cooper, & Sutherland, 2010).
Part B
An organization’s effectiveness is dependent on the presence of a structure that can be organized in a variety of ways. Some are extremely hierarchical in nature with most power and authority concentrated at the top management levels while others are less hierarchical with power distributed in the organization (Knowles & Castillo, 2011). An organizational structure is, therefore, the organization’s set-up that determines the hierarchy and reporting structure within an organization. For my organization the structure is as below
President
Vice President Sales & MarketingVice President FinanceVice President HRVice President Production
Sales PresidentMarketing PresidentChief AccountantHR ManagerQuality Assurance ManagerProduction Manager
The organization, therefore, uses the traditional functional management structure where individuals in the organizatio...