MANAGING STRESS AT WORK

Managing Stress At Work

Managing Stress At Work

Problem

Stress is everywhere—Home, school, and the work place. The sooner you learn how to manage it, the better. However, not everyone is very good at managing stress.

Aim and objective

To know the best way to manage stress, I have interviewed several businessmen and most of the following ideas of managing stress are based on their experiences.

Research selection & Collected date

The criteria of selection for the literature were relevance to the research topic and the year of publication. Both public and private libraries as well as online libraries were visited to access the data. Some of the online databases that were accessed are ebsco, questia, emerald, phoenix and so on.

Research method

The research is based on secondary data collection. The data is extracted from various journals, articles and books. Secondary research describes information gathered through literature, publications, broadcast media, and other non-human sources. This type of research does not involve human subjects.

Description of method

The research approach used is qualitative. Qualitative research is much more subjective than quantitative research and uses very different methods of collecting information which could be both primary and secondary. As already mentioned this study chooses the secondary method. The nature of this type of research is exploratory and open-ended.

This type of research is often less costly than surveys and is extremely effective in acquiring information. It is often the method of choice in instances where quantitative measurement is not required.

Literature review

It was Christina Adzima's senior year, and there was one final academic hurdle before her high school graduation—the 20-page term paper. The Stratford, Connecticut, student had been on schedule with the project all year, meeting each deadline. Then, two weeks before the full draft was due, her dog died. Christina just couldn't seem to get the paper started, and suddenly it was the night before it was due. “It was the first all-nighter I had ever pulled, and I vowed I'd never do it again,” she says. As a student, stress can affect many areas of your life. Keeping up your grades, writing college essays, struggling with the decision of where to go to college, homework, tests, after-school sports, a part-time job, and your social life may all be making demands on your time. And after graduation, when you've left school to enter the work force, will the stress subside? Not likely. While it can be difficult to deal with stress, the sooner you learn how to manage it, the better.

The ability to handle stress has almost become a requirement in most jobs today. According to the 1997 National Study of the Changing Work force by the Families and Work Institute in New York City, jobs are the biggest stressor for most Americans. In fact, job and workplace stress are three times more likely to affect a person's emotional well being than children, again parents, spouses, commuting, housework or any other personal demands. Despite this, employers appear to be doing very little about ...