Workplace Health
Stress at Work
The stress can be described as a model of emotional, cognitive responses, behavioral and body experience when we perceive us to be in a situation where we can not cope with the demands placed on us. The sources of stress at work is work, home and the struggle for balance in our work and home.
According to a Léger Marketing Canadian workers, the effects of stress in the workplace include:
• The physical impact: 53 percent say they experience headaches, clenched jaws, indigestion, constipation or diarrhea increased sweating and fatigue or insomnia due to stress at work.
• Psychological impact: 55 percent suffer from anxiety, irritability with colleagues, defensiveness, anger, mood swings and feelings of helplessness or being trapped by the stress at work.
• influence the behavior: 52 percent say that work stress does not wait, causes of prevaricate, make them quickly to secure or remove, or causes them to isolate themselves from others, neglect responsibility or bad results.
The sources of stress at work include the nature and content of work and organizational factors that contribute to an environment fairness, respect and justice. The transition to a global economy makes our world work faster pace and has created an environment 24 / 7 in which we can continue to work, pay bills and shopping on the clock and around the world.
Working hours and work week have been expanded and technologies such as cell phones, pagers, Blackberries and computers blur the distinction between work and home.
"Why should we worry about job stress?
Working under constant stress makes people feel art, emotional, exhausted, and burned. Feeling like this for too long can cause other serious problems such as depression, anxiety disorders and addiction.
These mental health problems and addiction result in an enormous burden on individuals, workplaces, systems of health care and the economy. mental health claims are becoming the fastest category of disability claims, and most have long-term disability an important component of mental health.
The economic impact of depression in the work place is better understood recently the most accurate measurements of direct and indirect costs. For those who are employed, direct costs such as absenteeism, disability and treatment costs can be quantified and the administrative database.
Other factors that may important but difficult to quantify include loss of economic opportunities arising from the depression, including underemployment, lack of promotions overtime, moving full time to part-time and the burden of depression for families or society in general.
The most common causes of stress at work:
or job satisfaction: The people who say they are more satisfied with their jobs or happier in their jobs also report low levels of stress. Job satisfaction includes feeling that makes an important contribution to make a good job.
or includes also feel their work is an "good" and have the training, skills and focus needed to do their job.
No fair compensation: Employees report higher job satisfaction when they feel they receive fair compensation they feel they have been personal and fairly. professional development opportunities are an important part of equitable remuneration.
balance or work-related stress: too much work or work (including the underutilization of skills) the causes of stress among employees. There are optimal amounts of work that people can process it for them are not overworked or bored in their jobs.
an important role in an organization of meaning: It is important that employees feel that their contribution is valuable in the bigger picture (as an important member of a team). Diversity of using the workplace are an essential environmental health today.
physical working environment: Work stress is reduced when the physical work environment is comfortable, with natural light where possible temperature, comfortable, attractive and not isolated.
Leadership Effectiveness: It should be noted that more people leave their jobs because they have not received the support and leadership their managers than any other reason. Often, the most successful are promoted to management training management positions with little or no preparation.
Good managers help a healthy work environment through the integration of staff in decision making and increase their sense of control and direction of the organization. Staff Benefits feel respect and recognition of managers. management style and techniques used to increase the law enforcement work stress and contribute their discouragement.
Loyalty engenders psychologically healthy workplace among staff, while motivating them to assume new stage performance and keep talented people.
Signs of stress
? Irritability, impatience
? Inability to stay focused
? Keep out of sight, keeping the world at a distance, being Grouchy about the occasional interruptions, such as the telephone and avoid contact eyes
? Calling in sick a lot, constantly late for meetings
? Avoid the office environment and work "at home" a lot
? Search painful smile openly
? Find chat and tuning hate what others are saying
? Missing Deadlines
? Restoring confidence in yourself and others
? Sensation and even lose customers
In general, exposure to disease chronic work stress seems to amplify the negative effects of disorders physical and psychiatric, and is associated with higher rates of disability. By contrast, decision latitude and support more and more colleagues or supervisors can mitigate negative effects of stress at work.
It is important to note that in examining a series of direct and indirect costs of depression in the workplace, the cost of treatment is always a small fraction and provides an excellent return on investment for employers, private insurers and public systems health care through greater productivity and higher rates of sustainable employment.
About the Author
Alvaro Castillo has been writing reports for 10 years on healthy sleep habits and stress with positive results. For more information check out his website at http://www.mynighttimehealth.com
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