This document discusses stress in the workplace and its effects. It describes how personal factors like personality and self-esteem can influence an individual's stress levels. Stress can lead to various health issues if excessive, like heart attacks, strokes, and depression. The document outlines common stress symptoms and strategies organizations and individuals can use to prevent and manage stress, such as empowering workers, relaxing exercises, and stress reduction techniques.

1. Prepared by:
MANNILOU M. PASCUA
Ed. D. EM Student
Approved by:
MARIO C. PASION, Ed.D., Ffp
Professor
Republic of the Philippines
LAGUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
Santa Cruz Campus
Santa Cruz, Laguna
GRADUATE STUDIES AND APPLIED RESEARCH

2. Effect of stress in the workplace

3. Personal factors and stress:
This includes individual needs,
capabilities and personality. These are
properties of individual that influence
how they perceive and respond to stress
emanating from work and non – work
sources. Stress can reach a destructive
state more quickly, for example, when
experienced by highly emotional people
or by those with low self – esteem.

4. • Further, people who perceive a good
fit between job requirements and
personal skills have higher tolerance
for stress than those who feel of a
person- job mismatch.

5. Stress and Health:
Stress is a potential cause of
anxiety and frustration and is
capable of breaking down the body’s
physiological and/ or psychological
wellbeing over time. Excessive stress
can lead to several health problems
such as:

6. • Heart attack
• Stroke
• Hypertension
• Migraine
• Headache
• Ulcers
• Drug
• Alcohol
• Tobacco abuse
• Overeating
• Depression
• Muscle aches

7. Common effects of stress

11. Symptoms of Stress
• Feeling overwhelmed
• Anxious • Mood swings
• Short temper
• Rundown and tired
• Headaches and body
aches
• Tightness in muscles
• Back and neck pain
Anger
• Depression
• Heart palpitations
• Irregular menstruation
cycles
• Loss of sexual function
• Loss of sexual desire

14. Stress management – is
the ability to prevent or
cope with stress and
maintain wellness.
Preventing and coping with stress:
• Stress Prevention is the best first line
strategy for dealing with stress.

15. It involves taking action for yourself
or others to keep stress from reaching
destructive levels in the first place. In
particular, stressors emerging from
personal and non – work factors must
be recognized so that action can be
taken to prevent them from adversely
affecting the work experience.
It involves taking actions to prevent
the emergence of stress that becomes
destructive.

16. Strategies use by different
organizations to prevent destructive
levels of stress:
1) Empowerment and participation –
allowing workers to have more say in
decisions affecting them and their work.
2) Job redesign – Creating enriched jobs
that make work more interesting and
responsible for individuals and groups.

17. 3) Goal setting – making sure that every
worker understands job expectations
and has challenging but achievable,
performance goals.
4) Communication – providing everyone
with continual information about
performance accomplishments by
themselves, their workgroups and
organization as a whole.

18. 5) Selection, placement and training –
emphasizing a proper ‘person-job’
match when filing jobs moving
people as appropriate to new jobs;
and giving everyone the chance to
update and expand their skills
continually through training and
development.

19. Six ways in which to manage
excessive stress
1) Control the situation – Avoid
unrealistic deadlines. Do your
best , but know your limits. You
cannot do everything to
everyone.
2) Use time management techniques – Avoid trap of
trying to do too many things at once and then
failing to accomplish much, if anything at all.
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20. 3) Pace yourself – Plan your day, Do
not try to do two or more things at
the same time. Think before reacting
to negative situations or people.
4) Open up to others – communicate
to other specially to those people for
whom you trusted and care for you
such as; family and friends.

21. 5) Exercise and relax - Scientists have
found that regular exercise can
decrease overall levels of tension,
elevate and stabilize your mood,
improve sleep and even self-
esteem. About five minutes of
aerobic exercise can begin to
stimulate anti-anxiety effects.

22. 6) Practice the relaxation response –
when feeling upright relax for a few
minutes by following these simple steps
–sit with eyes closed in a quiet location
–slowly repeat a peaceful word or
phrase over and over
–take complete but comfortable
breaths
–avoid distracting thoughts

23. Other ways to manage stress
1. Get Better Sleep -
2. Talk It Out -
3. Use Stress Reduction
Techniques -
4. Have Fun -
5. Optimize Your Nutrition -
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