Workplace Stress

RUNNING HEAD : WORK PLACE STRESS CAUSES , EFFECTS AND MANAGEMENT

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Introduction

Work place stress is a condition when the body reacts to poor job demands to ones abilities , capability or through put and resources . It is usually a harmful condition to the physical and emotional well being of a person . Stress can come with its related diss such as psychological diss which include : - anxiety and depression among other diss . It can also cause emotional diss which include fatigue among others . In addition

, stress can cause cognitive impairment of the brain such as memory lapse . Some employees may even have disturbed relationships or family issues due to work related stress Psychologically difficult posts that do not allow employees to have control over what they do in work process may increase the health risks such as cardiovascular diseases even occupational illnesses (Patrick et al , 2000 Dorothy , 1990

Causes of Work related Stress

Work stress is brought about by many factors in any job environment Even if different people handle stress differently , most of work related stress in different working environment is similar . Here are some of the main causes of work place stress :-

Salary - Some people get work stress due to the fact that most employers do not pay good salary scale in relation to the output or the job of the employee or worker . Most of the work places more often than not want to pay a salary that is below what is expected of them by the market rate the same job (Patrick et al , 2000 For example a graduate employee would expect to be paid an amount worth a graduate employee , if his or her expectation are not met in relation to the pay or if he or she feels that he is supposed to be paid higher than what his or her job at market rate is paying stress may come up . In developing world , work stress is often the caused by poor salary and wages to employees

Working conditions - Most people say that salary includes working condition in most cases working condition may not include salary . Work stress may be brought about by working condition in the sense that the job environment may be bad to the extend that one gets ill after some period due to either over working oneself due to lack of enough labor For example a company that needs a 24 hour working system where only 2 workers change shift in a day , in that one worker works for more than 8 hrs in a day for maybe 7 days a week . Which means time to relax the body is not in the schedule since the worker works may even work for more than 12 hours in cases where the other employee is sick (Michael Cary 1999 . This may cause stress which may lead to employee not performing optimum . On the other hand some working conditions may include lack of good safety conditions to...