Understanding and Addressing the Psychological Stress in the Workplace

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Wolever, R. Q., Bobinet, K. J., McCabe, K., Mackenzie, E. R., Fekete, E., Kusnick, C. A., & Baime, M. (2012). Effective and viable mind-body stress reduction in the workplace:a randomized controlled trial. Journal of occupational health psychology, 17(2), 246.
Stress is a serious issue in the workplace because of its consequences. Stressed employees will add more costs to the organizations based on different factors such as poor performance when they are involved in various activities within the organization especially in decision-making process. Consequently, they are prone to greater risk health conditions such as diabetes, depression and anxiety, obesity, cancer and fatigue. Therefore, addressing the issue of stress in the workplace will help to reduce the firm’s additional costs.
The article provides an evidence-based interventions that can help organizations address stress in an effective way. The two Mindfulness at WorkTM two interventions have emerged to the most beneficial stress management program in organizations because of the benefits it has. Training the body and mind allows individuals to notice changes in them and realize how intentions and behaviors are formed. This might enable them manage their behaviors and attitudes to minimize the consequences they might have not only to them but also to the larger group or organizations.
As a unit manager in my organization, I notice most of my colleagues being stressed from both personal lives to work pressures that they cannot handle on their own and this results in poor performance in my group. To increase the performance I will have to guide them in addressing and managing their own stress as well. Stress management results in various benefits such as motivation which is a key to improved performance.
Beehr, T. A. (2014). Psychological stress in the workplace (psychology revivals). Routledge.
In this book Beehr addresses various issues in the workplace starting with the various types of occupational stress in the first part to stress treatment in the last part of the book. Beehr provides a theoretical framework through which stress can be handled in the modern world where the stressors have increased than in the past business environments. Stressors have increased due to various factors such as rapidly increasing living standards, family issues and increased competition in the business environment. Through Beehr’s theoretical approaches to stress in the workplace, one can come with a proper way of addressing it. However, most people have been thinking that motivation reduces stress, but Beehr provides a contrary opinion which suggests that motivation maybe a stressor at the end of it. This is a new approach that most scholars have been disregarding because it may make people to overwork so that they can be rewarded. This may make them work more and if they do not get achieve their objectives, the stress may escalate to cause some of the chronic diseases such as heart disease.
This book is provides various ways through which one can identify stressors in a simple manner within the organization. As a unit manager, this book opens my scope ...