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Stress Reduction Program in the Workplace

STRESS REDUCTION AT WORKPLACE

Stress Reduction at Workplace

Introduction

Stress is a natural outcome of every human endeavor in all the aspects of life . It can be proverbially tagged as an inevitable evil that exists because human faculties exist . Leading stress research Hans Selye defines stress as any non specific response by body to demands made upon it . Stress results from gradual internal reaction and changing emotional mapping of events that continue to take place in a person 's every day life , and accumulate in the form of emotional reaction that

is known as stress . Stress is often a direct a precursor to , or explanation for a number of other emotional reactions such as anger , frustration , fear fatigue , helplessness , hurt , loneliness , confusion and despondency

One of the most common types of stress that is experienced by almost every one is the workplace stress . People across the world and across the enterprise and industry they are working in , have reported of burnouts and mental fatigues that leave them completely exhausted and emotionally drained . The pressure of maintaining a consistent level of performance and accomplishment in a consistently competitive environment exerts severe visible and invisible pressure on employees , causing both short term and long term stress syndromes

Organizations and business units have also come to recognize the problems of stress and its potential negative fallouts that can diminish or disrupt their productivity and they have responded to the situation by launching their own stress management programs . These stress management programs vary according to the nature of occupation and degree of perceived stress and generally they cover those areas of stress that seems to originate at the workplace . The modern stress reduction programs have transcended this limited approach in accordance with the realization that workplace stress is deeply intertwined with personal stress , and people , as cognizant human beings , necessarily carry whole or residual stress from home to work and vice versa

Stress Scenario

In to study the impact of stress management programs and policies this has selected an Irish airline management company , Aer Rianta which is the state air company of Ireland and is in charge of managing and developing country 's three airports at Dublin , Cork and Shannon Apart from domestic operations the company has extensive commercial undertakings in airport management and duty free trades in UK , Germany and many Asian countries . The company also holds an extensive hotel chain in Ireland

The range of responsibilities of Aer Rianta cover all the aspects of airport management that include airport maintenance , covering security and safety aspects , policing and checks , maintaining duty free shops car parking facilities , car leasing and performing cleaning operations As the company is required to work in close cooperation with all the major airlines , the working conditions and requirements vary considerably with employees working in quite different and unrelated areas . The company objective of Aer Rianta is to become best global organization in the field of airport management , duty free operations and other related commercial engagements . To achieve...

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