AKU YANG TERLALU STRESS!!!!

What causes of stress in the workplace?
Typical triggers of work related stress include:
· Insufficient training and opportunities for learning new skills
· Poor worklife
balance
· Lack of control over work
· Excessive pressures on time
· Too much or too little work or responsibility
· Confusion about duties and responsibilities
· Lack of variety and interest
· Organisational confusion, restructuring, changes in the job
*Uncertainty over the future.

Physical symptoms of stress include:
· increased susceptibility to colds and other infections
· headaches
· muscular tension
· backache and neckache
· excessive tiredness
· difficulty sleeping
· digestive problems
· raised heart rate
· increased sweating
· lower sex drive
· skin rashes
· blurred vision

Emotional and behavioural changes
Stress can cause feelings or emotions such as inability to cope, short
temperedness, lack of achievement, loss of appetite, excessive smoking and
drinking, indecisiveness, problems concentrating, lack of control, poor
relationships with colleagues or clients and loss of motivation and
commitment.

Introduction

Stress can be good because it motivates you to work quickly. However, when it makes you ill or unable to concentrate, it's a bad thing. If you find work overwhelming and you feel like your job is taking over your life, you need to get control and keep work at the office. Follow these tips to handle stress at work.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Steps

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Step One

Use basic stress coping techniques like deep breathing. Take the time to relax, breathe deeply and let the stress wash over you.

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Step Two

Exercise regularly. Exercise releases endorphins making you feel happier and healthier. You can also work off negative feelings and anger.

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Step Three

Assess the situation. See if you can find ways to reduce the stress. Pass part of the work to someone else. Ask for help.

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Step Four

Make time for yourself. If you work all the time, you will lose the other parts of yourself. Take a break and do something fun. You will find you have more energy when you return to the job.

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Step Five

Be realistic. Only do what you can do. If you are taking work home every day, you are doing too much. Work is only part of your life. Make time for the other parts. Take control of your life. You need a healthy balance between work and home life.

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Step Six

Talk to other people. Communicate with co-workers and other people in your life. Talking releases stress; sometimes other people can offer solutions you didn't think of yourself.

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Step Seven

Deal with workplace bullies and negative co-workers. You don't want the actions of others to add unnecessary stress to your own life.

Tips & Warnings

• Stress can seriously harm your health.

What is workplace stress?

Stress—the responses our bodies and minds have to the demands placed on them—is a normal part of life and a normal part of any job. Without stress, we wouldn’t meet deadlines, strive to hit sales or production targets, or line up new clients. Meeting the demands and challenges of a job is part of what makes work interesting and satisfying, and it’s often what allows people to develop new skills and advance in their careers. In the workplace, we regularly experience stress-causing situations, react to them with heightened tension, then return to a more relaxed state when the crisis, big or small, is resolved. However, problems occur when stress is so overwhelming or constant that the tension never abates and we never get to relax.

What we think of as “job stress” is what happens when:

• The challenges and demands of work become excessive.
• The pressures of the workplace surpass workers’ abilities to handle them.
• Satisfaction becomes frustration and exhaustion.

When stress crosses the line from normal to excessive, it can trigger physical and emotional responses that are harmful to employees and businesses alike. And unfortunately, for many people “stress” has become synonymous with “work.”

What causes stress in the workplace?

Some jobs are stressful by definition because they’re physically dangerous (such as firefighting or criminal justice), involve matters of life and death (emergency functions), or are psychologically demanding (social work, teaching). But people who stamp metal or crunch numbers can also be subject to stress on the job.

Workplace stress is usually the result of high demands on the job, real or perceived lack of control concerning those demands, poor day-to-day organization and communication, and an unsupportive work environment.

The following chart lays out many of the factors that lead to job stress: