Organizational Behaviour: Stress Management in the Workplace

Stress Management in the Workplace
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Stress Management in the Workplace
Stress in the workplace is one of the main challenges modern leaders in organizations have to address. Positive and negative changes often evoke emotions in human beings, best described as stress. It is normal for a human being to experience stress, and the outcome of the experiencing can be positive or negative. Prolonged feelings of stress, often referred to as chronic stress, can be harmful and sometimes escalate to health problems. On the contrary, short-term stress or rather acute stress disappear quickly, and the damages in a case where there are negative outcomes are fairly noticeable. From a biological point of view, stress triggers the release of hormones, making the body highly alert, tensed, and experiencing a sudden increase in pulse rate that may escalate to health problems. Stress of any kind can have both physical and psychological outcomes, both of which have health effects on the human body. From an organizational behavior point of view, stress is viewed to have different kinds of triggers and different patterns of reaction.
There is quite a long list of life stressors that are likely to evoke some sort of anxiety in life, including divorce, death of loved ones, job losses, and medical outcomes, among others. Organizational behavior is a discipline responsible for understanding human behavior in an organizational setting, and stress and stress management are some of the human aspects that directly impact an organization (Robbins & Judge, 2019). Therefore, knowledge of the overall concept of stress and stress management becomes a core subject in the field of organizational behavior, and there is a need for managers to have an in-depth understanding of these concepts. Employees are also subject to stress in the workplace, which may inhibit their effectiveness in discharging their duties. This makes it necessary for employees to have a clear understanding of the concept of stress and stress management from an organizational point of view.
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Different scholars have put forward various studies on the concept of stress and its impacts in different contexts. Bhargava and Trivedi (2018) embarked on a study to establish the causes of stress among young people and were inspired by the fact that the youth stage is a critical development period where one is faced with several life changes that may invoke a lot of stress. The study established that the major stress factors among the youth include the myriad of examinations that they have to undertake in the course of their study, interpersonal relation and relationship issues, common life changes including family breakdowns, and career exploration (Bhargava & Trivedi, 2018). The study further suggests that to avert the prevalence of stress among youth and even later in the course of their life, there is a need to have a positive upbringing, especially in the early ages of development, considering their susceptibility to the negative and health impacts of stress.
A study by Reddy and Padmini (2019) was undertaken to expose the stress levels among young adults, the caus...