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STRESS MANAGEMENT IN THE WORKPLACE

Managers and Supervisors regard pressure as an inevitable part of their daily lives. Especially when decision making and guidance have to take place, a significant amount of stress may be experienced.

If Supervisors and Managers allow stress-tolerance levels to be exceeded, it would impair their own health and wellbeing.  If the quality of the Managers' and Supervisors'  lives are not as desired on account of excessive stress, it will also influence their daily lives outside the work situation.

WHAT IS STRESS?

Stress is perceived as an interaction of-

• Your response to the environmental demands that may lead to a variety of physical, emotional and behavioural changes;
• Environmental factors that, in your opinion, have an influence on your daily routine and affect your psychological and physical health;
• Personal characteristics, attitudes, convictions and values that play a major role in your experience of stress; and
• An imbalance between the demands perceived and your perception of your own capabilities to handle the demand.

Therefore, stress emanates from a certain type of relationship between you and your environment

It is important to know the following:

• We do not all perceive the same situation the same way and what can be stressful to one person may not be so to the other
• A certain amount of stress is needed for your wellbeing. It is called eustress or positive stress. For example, the body's stress reaction mechanism stimulates enough energy and excitement so that top performance can be achieved for important tasks. This provides the pleasure added to life.
• Examples of positive stress are situations such as when a child learns to walk, a student before exams, we get excited and tense when our favourite team plays an excellent game, et cetera. Pleasant emotions bring about feelings of elation.
• The type of stress that is damaging is called distress or negative stress. An example of distress is your own serious illness or that of somebody close to you, your worries about money or your family, repressed feelings like intense anger, fear or frustration. This is stress that lasts too long and leads to exhaustion.
• Stress is therefore related to your perception that the demands of live or events at work, are threatening to you. It leads to feelings of anxiety, agitation, ineffective behaviour, et cetera.
• Whether a specific event will pose a threat to you and therefore cause you stress is determined by the extent to which the event has personal meaning for you and the extent to which your personal ideals, self-actualisation or values are affected. The more important the motive or value are, that are being threatened, the stronger the stress reaction will be.
• The sources of stress are unlimited. These demands are called stressors and can be caused by external factors (like the death of a loved one, divorce, work pressure, financial- or legal matters, crime or vandalism in your neighbourhood, etc). They may also be a result of your own internal attitudes and thoughts (for example academic aspirations, ideals, quest for success, et cetera).

Even if one does not experience chronic stress or does not maintain a stressful lifestyle, it does not mean that one does not experience stress from time to time and cannot still benefit from a programme for coping with stress. The learning of better stress-handling skills is not only for the busy executive Director who strives for success. Everyone can benefit from it.

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