RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Research Proposal

Research Proposal: Office Depot

Background

With the rapid changes in social institutions and growing competition, pressure on staff in Office Depot is increasingly prominent. The excessive pressure causes extensive damage to physical and mental health of the workers also possesses a negative impact on the organizations. In recent years, due to excessive pressure on the risk of social apathy, depression, or even "death from overwork" in the white-collar jobs cases continue to occur, while the pressure causes the decline in job performance examples abound.

Therefore, how to ease the excessive pressure of work and maintain a healthy state of mind is the mangers core responsibility. The stress has led people suffer from the apathetic disease of social intercourse and the disease of sorrow, even the cases of "die of the over-fatigue" appear continuously, and examples of pressure leading to the falling work efficiency can be seen everywhere. Therefore, it has become manager's role, finding out how to relax the over-job stress and how to keep a healthy mind. The stress management has already been in a particularly influential position, in today's era.Problem Statement

The current global situation is badly affecting the organizational performance, and employees are the main victim of these crises, which resulting in pressure and management from the upper management to the employee.

Aims and Objectives

The aim of this research is to study stress on the employees and its effects on the employees working at Office Depot. This research would help in finding the real issue of performance deviation, and solving problem relating to employee motivation.Significance

This study is significant in many contexts. The study identifies many aspects of employee stress. It also discusses the practice and effect of stress on the employee of Office Depot.Research Questions

The research questions for this study are as follows:

What are the main consequences regarding the stress and pressure feel by an employee regarding the job safety in Office Depot?

What key steps should be taken by upper management in order to motivate employees to overcome these stresses?

Literature Review

Work stress is nothing new, but it can be said that today their levels are higher or at least they are more widespread and more taken into account. In a world where there is less time for everything and when the economic crisis and unemployment are part of the daily thoughts of millions of people, stress has succeeded in taking over the health and minds of many, causing heavy imbalances in personal and professional aspects of the lives of these people. Moreover, employers have realized what is happening and had to face the consequences of working with a staff overwhelmed by stress, fatigue and worry, which has led managers to review cases and create strategies so that the productivity of firms do not go under and that certain costs related to the health of employees remain under control. (Turner, 2000)Stress in the workplace

For about 50 years, the term stress is used in medicine. What it means is achieving or exceeding the individual physical and mental stamina. Mentally stress can be a" defining process in which the individual comes to opportunities, limitations or requirements which are in connection with his wishes.

It is found that employers understand the harmful effects that stress has on companies that are trying to respond with different strategies to attack stress and help workers cope with the problem. Stress in the workplace is part of the list of concerns of managers today. Employers are increasingly aware of the negative consequences of employee stress resulting in several aspects of business and health care costs, absenteeism and productivity, so they are taking action on this matter and creating new strategies to reduce the stress that keeps them from having a healthy work environment ...