What Is Work Place Stress

What is workplace stress? Provide at least one reference you used to describe workplace stress. Do you believe stress impacts how people communicate? Provide and describe at least one reference suggesting specific skills or tools you can use to manage your reactions to workplace stress.

Definition of work place stress:

Workplace stress can be defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job/ or other functions do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the employee.( L. Robinson 2012)

Stress is a part of everyday life; we all experience it to one degree or another. Although it is an unavoidable part of many activities at work and at home, stress becomes harmful when it reaches an intensity that impairs daily activities. Workplace stress can be very costly. It contributes to low productivity, occupational illness and injury, absenteeism, poor employee morale and high healthcare costs. A feeling of powerlessness is a universal cause of job stress. When you feel powerless, you're prey to depression's traveling companions, helplessness and hopelessness. You don't alter or avoid the situation because you feel nothing can be done.

workplace stress has been associated with:

1. Jobs that demand a lot from you, while giving you little or no control over how the job is performed; 2. Unsafe and/or uncomfortable work environments; 3.Lack of employee participation or input in organizational practices; and 4.little social support, poor supervision or poor relations with co-workers. Juggling work/ personal lives 20% . Lack of job security 6%, Work load 46%, People Issues 28%

Risk Factors that lead to work place stress:

1. Mismanagement: When managers don’t manage and communicate well or they are too authoritarian, disorganized or pit workers against each other–the result is often frustrated or stressed-out employees.

2. Physical Environment: Employees are affected by things like their...