Effective Management of Job Stress

It is evident that stress is ever present in work places. To that effect, organizations should design effective strategy for stress management or risk extinction. Since there cannot be a stress free work environment, managers of organizations are expected to find ways of reducing the effects of stress in the establishments rather than the wasteful effort trying to reduce the presence of stressors at the work environment.

Stress management in the work place may take two dimensions: strategy geared towards the organization, and strategy geared towards the individual.

Organizational Strategy

The overall output of the organization largely depends on the health of the employees, therefor it is imperative that organizations should help its staff cope with stress. The organization may either institute stress management programs like mapping out days for off duties or shift duty for their employees. Organizations could also adopt the collateral stress program in which the worker can embark on a long period of leave to enable the employee ease off tension.

Individual strategy

Individual strategy could be in form of time management, relaxation, meditation and physical exercises as well as role management.