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Leading From Your Differences: Perceiving Yourself and Others

Leading From Your Differences: Perceiving Yourself and Others

To become a leader one should accept the difference in personality in his or her followers. There are particular situations in which one can get confused and stressed out while handling the issues and conflictive situations. In these cases the thing that takes place actively is “Stress”. A negative concept that can impact on an individual's physical and mental well being but still it is not clear that what causes it is commonly known as Stress. It creates a threat or challenge to one's well being. It is the term that is widely used within the organisational context. Occupational stress can take life of an individual as it has the ability to intensify itself and extend to that level that is uncontrollable. Nowadays, the work load is getting very high at organisational level that is causing higher stress level (Cryer, Et.al, 2003). This is the main reason that in almost all the organisations stress management trainings are effectively conducted and is made mandatory for employers to hold it. The stress management training helps the employees in managing the stress level in those situations in which it is getting out of control. It can be caused by a situation or excessive workload. There are various factors that give rise to workplace stress like isolation, toxic work environments, difficult relationships between the management and colleagues, harassment, lack of motivation or opportunities to an individual, lack of autonomy, negative workload, management bullying and extensive hours of work (Brooks, 2009).

They are unable to concentrate on their work because they are caught up with work and are unwilling to take a break from their work. They get involved in their work so much that in the end they are stressed out. This is why it is said that too much work is not good for health. According to the article, stress impacts the man emotionally, as well as, physiologically. The thoughts and emotions of the person are impacted by the stress and this is the main reason that he is unable to concentrate on his work and in unable to perform in an efficient and effective manner.

According to a survey conducted by CareerBuilder, it was found the stress level in workers have increased by 10% in 2001-2002. Due to work related stress the health care costs have increased by ...