How to mitigate the Job stress?

What is Job Stress? 

Job stress can be define as a kind of physical harassment which cause due to the duties, resources, and capabilities of the employees as the nature of work is changing at whirlwind speed (Beehr and Newman, 1978). Job stress is mainly connect with the physical power of the employee and it makes employees more prone to error, poor work performance, mental health issues, burnout, and ultimately for workplace conflict. 

Figure: Reasons for workplace stress

What will happen to the organizational productivity?

Working stress is mainly influence with the health condition of the employee and same as the productivity of the organization. Stress working conditions are actually associate with the increased absenteeism, tardiness & intensions by workers to quit their jobs. This kind of situation may be get high cost to the organization for find new workers. After recruitments, they should need a training & development about the work roles. Organization should invest more to this procedure & it’ll be influence to the productivity. The output between of the training person & the newcomer is also have a working gap. This is also influence to the productivity of the organization. Goodwill of the company will be collapse among the trade market. Employees are not willing to work in the organization. By considering those things organization should be able to mitigate the working stress (Lamothe, 2019).

If job stress goes unaddressed, organizations pay the price in higher rates of turnover, disengagement, and absenteeism. However, it is important for HR personals to understand how job stress affects employee performance. So that they can identify and support the struggling team members.

Tips for managing Workplace stress

According to Eys (2022), HR can help employees to cope & manage stress by

• Assessing and enhancing existing benefits
• Creating a psychologically safe workplace
• Implementing a Holistic employee mental health programs
• Ensuring that the workload is in line with worker’s capability
• Managing the available resources
• Building a good communication & relationship between workers and the management
• Clearly defining worker’s role and responsibilities
• Providing opportunity for social interaction
• Giving worker’s opportunity to participate in decision and actions affecting their job

Conclusion

Working stress is high dangerous fact which can affect to the whole organization and therefore HR should pay more attention on mitigating the worker stress at the organizations.

How to Reduce workplace stress? 

References 

Beehr, T. A. and Newman, J. E. (1978) Job stress, employee health, and organizational effectiveness: A facet analysis, model, and literature review 1. Personnel psychology, 31(4), pp.665-699.   

Eys, P. V. (2022)  HR’s Guide to the Effect of Job Stress on Employee Performance. Pathway [Online]. Available at: https://www.pathways.com/pathways-at-work/blog/job-stress-and-employee-performance#:~:text=Job%20stress%20makes%20employees%20more,turnover%2C%20disengagement%2C%20and%20absenteeism [Accessed on 14^th Aug 2022].

Lamothe, C. (2019) How to Keep Work Stress from Taking Over Your Life. Healthline [Online]. Available at: https://www.healthline.com/health/work-stress#recognize-it [Accessed on 14^th Aug 2022].