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Advance human resource management Ch 4 Stress Management

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How can work stress be minimized

1.Individual strategies2.Organization strategies

(A) Individual strategiesMuscle

Relaxation

Biofeedback

Meditation

Humour

Stress Diary

Time Management

(1) Muscle RelaxationThis involves slow and deep breathing A conscious effort to relieve muscle

tension and an altered state of unconsciousness.

The tactics is inexpensive.Not required a profession training.

(2) Biofeedback

Machine is used to train people to detect and control stress-related symptoms

The machine translates unconscious bodily signs into a recognizable cue

Muscle relaxation and meditative techniques

Meditation

Meditation techniques are used with positive result and a majority

Perhaps the most widely praised technique everywhere is transcendental meditation.

Practiced for 20 minutes twice daylily help to reduced stress.

Humour

Humour can be powerful stress buster. One should learn the ways of laughing

away any adverse situation.

Stress Diary

Keeping a diary helps immensely The time How happy the person feels When stressful events occur How did the person handle it? Did the person deal with the stress correctly?

Time Management Most of us are poor in time management Work overload Skipped schedules Attendant tensionSome basic principal in time management are:- Preparing daily a list of activities to be attended to, Scheduling activities according to the priorities set,

(B) Organizational Strategies

Organization too have been developing and implicating stress-reduction

Some of the program focus on a specific issues of problem.

Alcohol Drugs carrier counseling Job allocation

Eliminating stress

Improve the physical work. Job redesign Changes in workload &

deadliness. Work shedual more flexible.

Program of stress management

Behavior modification Training in relaxation . Physical fitness program. Team building

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