Managing Workplace Stress Workplace Stress Essay

For instance, stress due to the change of working systems is a problem caused by the employer. Therefore, it is the employer's duty to ensure that employee learn and adapt to the new systems or machines and be able to work stress-free to meet the demands for production from the company management. The employer should ensure that an employee has just enough work for the day and not an overloaded of work. This will enable the employee to cope up with the work environment and love his work. The employer is also obliged to the provision of break periods between the work process, to provide the employee some time for relaxing and refreshing. Therefore, the employer should also ensure that appropriate rest rooms and sanitation facilities are available for employees to relax when tired and respond to the nature calls when necessary (Bedeian, 1997, p.51).

However, despite the employer's role in stress management, the employee also needs to take responsibility of managing stress at the work environment. For instance, the employee needs to cultivate proper interpersonal relational skills, to relate appropriately with his colleagues at the work place. This will enhance the employee's team playing skills that will help bring the rest of the team members on board to work together. This will help reduce the possibilities of being stressed by the team members. Conflict, at the workplace, results from unmanaged stress, which is a byproduct of work demands for positive results. The demands for performance may be seen as the cause of conflicts at the work place. Therefore, an employee should have an ultimate goal of realizing positive results, to end any possible conflicts.

The behavior of leaders and managers at the workplace can be a cause of role ambiguity, which is a known cause of stress to the employees. When managers and leaders behave in a manner, likely to suggest a shift of their responsibilities to the employees under them, the roles of that the employee will be ambiguous. Often, role ambiguity results to confusion of the employees on what they are expected to do, which also results to work overload, when the employees try to cover up for managers and leaders. Therefore, to reduce role ambiguity, leaders and managers should behave in a way that supports the roles assigned to employees. Consequently, the employees will clearly know their roles at their work place and work towards realization of positive results (Anderson, & Pulich, 2001, p.6).

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