This document discusses stress management in the IT industry. It begins with an introduction that defines stress and discusses short-term and long-term stress. It then outlines the objectives and methodology of the study, which examines stress factors for IT employees. The findings indicate that workload, vulnerability, and low physical condition are major stress contributors. The document concludes with recommendations for stress reduction programs and techniques.
Role of stress management courses: A case study of banking sector employeesdeshwal852
There is high degree of occupational stress amongst the bank employees because of long working hours, role conflict and political pressure. The study aimed to see the impact of stress management courses on banking sector employees. A sample of 120 employees working in private sector banks in South-West Delhi was selected for study. Out of 120 respondents 60 were selected for experimental group and rest 60 were selected for control group. Scale developed by Shivastava and Singh (1981) was used to measure occupational stress. The data was interpreted with the help of mean, standard deviation and ‘t’ test.
Role of stress management courses: A case study of banking sector employeesdeshwal852
There is high degree of occupational stress amongst the bank employees because of long working hours, role conflict and political pressure. The study aimed to see the impact of stress management courses on banking sector employees. A sample of 120 employees working in private sector banks in South-West Delhi was selected for study. Out of 120 respondents 60 were selected for experimental group and rest 60 were selected for control group. Scale developed by Shivastava and Singh (1981) was used to measure occupational stress. The data was interpreted with the help of mean, standard deviation and ‘t’ test.
Introducing a Workplace Yoga and Meditation ProgramTanoj Udawattage
Benefits of Introducing a Yoga and Meditation Program into the Workplace. This presentation includes:
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Meditation, Exercise & High Performance
The Research on Workplace Meditation
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A STUDY ON STRESS MANAGEMENT IN VARIOUS SECTORS IN INDIAIAEME Publication
Stress is the “wear and tear” our minds and bodies experience as we attempt to cope with our continually changing environment. Stress mainly occurs when the pressure is greater than the resource. Stress is not something bad but it all depends on how we take it, Most of the stress we experience is self-generated. It is generated on how we perceive life, whether an event makes us feel threatened or stimulated, encouraged or discouraged, happy or sad depends to a large extent on how we perceive ourselves. Self-generated stress is something of paradox, because so many people think of external causes when they are upset. But one should recognize that we create most of our own upsets in our daily life through our way of responding to things in a negative way which may be due to lack of awareness or our inability to perceive things as they are ought to be
A certain level of stress is normal. And positive stress responses from events such as changing schools and meeting new friends can actually help students learn and grow. But when exposed to repeated stressful events without the tools to manage feelings, stress can become emotionally and physically toxic. This guide explains the symptoms of stress in students from elementary school through college and provides strategies teachers and parents can use to help.
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Benefits of Introducing a Yoga and Meditation Program into the Workplace. This presentation includes:
Stats and Findings
Cost of Workplace Stress and Back Pain
Effects of Workplace Stress and Back Pain
Meditation, Exercise & High Performance
The Research on Workplace Meditation
The Research on Workplace Yoga
The Silver Lining
Measuring Success & Feedback
Flight of Fight Response
Relaxation Response
The Stress Response
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Forms and Documentation
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A STUDY ON STRESS MANAGEMENT IN VARIOUS SECTORS IN INDIAIAEME Publication
Stress is the “wear and tear” our minds and bodies experience as we attempt to cope with our continually changing environment. Stress mainly occurs when the pressure is greater than the resource. Stress is not something bad but it all depends on how we take it, Most of the stress we experience is self-generated. It is generated on how we perceive life, whether an event makes us feel threatened or stimulated, encouraged or discouraged, happy or sad depends to a large extent on how we perceive ourselves. Self-generated stress is something of paradox, because so many people think of external causes when they are upset. But one should recognize that we create most of our own upsets in our daily life through our way of responding to things in a negative way which may be due to lack of awareness or our inability to perceive things as they are ought to be
A certain level of stress is normal. And positive stress responses from events such as changing schools and meeting new friends can actually help students learn and grow. But when exposed to repeated stressful events without the tools to manage feelings, stress can become emotionally and physically toxic. This guide explains the symptoms of stress in students from elementary school through college and provides strategies teachers and parents can use to help.
Abstract: This research paper identified many of the stresses that are placed on police officers in Rajasthan Police. This research explored some of the various stressors and the effects that they may have on the police officers. Stress can easily be defined as, a response to something in the environment (a stressors when the) environment changes.
The purpose of this research paper was to investigate how job stress can negatively affect the officers in police department in Rajasthan. Information regarding police officers stress relating to the officer was difficult to locate and all forms of stress could not be identified.
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Stress is inevitable in today’s complex life. Right from the time of birth till death, an individual is regularly exposed to various stressful situations. The threat of political and economic imbalances and uncertainties, unemployment, poverty, urbanization and increased socio- economic complexities and
innumerable other factors contribute to stress. In fact modern times have been called the “age of anxiety and stress” (Coleman, 1976). Stress has been experienced since time immemorial, but its toll is higher than ever before. Stress is growing problem because of increase in working hours, deadlines, conflicting demands and increase accountability. The present paper makes an attempt to discuss stress
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Assignment-Specific Stress Inoculation Training for Highly Specialized IT Per...bijsshrjournal
As a result of their institutional assignments, highly specialized information technology (IT) personnel often find themselves in unpredictable and complex situations with a high level of difficulty. The complexity of the
tasks to be carried out and the management of these tasks have set new challenges for this category of personnel. It is all the more important, therefore, that the personnel employed should acquire differentiated stress control techniques during qualifying training to develop a long-term performance capability. Following up on the earlier
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Time Management and Professional Stress among Bank Managers: A Correlational ...iosrjce
The purpose of present research is to investigate relationship and between time management and
professional stress among bank managers. Moreover, it investigates gender difference on the variables of time
management and professional stress. The sample consisted on hundred subjects, was taken from various bank of
Government sector. How organize are you and Professional life Stress scale were used to assess time
management and professional stress in bank managers. Pearson product moment coefficient of Correlation and
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between time management and professional stress. Additionally, there is no significant differences in male and
female on the variables of time management and professional stress among bank managers
Stress has become a major concern of the modern times as it can cause harm to employee’s health and performance. Work related stress costs organization billions of dollars each year through sickness, turnover and absenteeism. So it becomes necessary for every organization to know the factor causing stress among the employees as well as how they cope up with stress to make the employee more participative and productive. The Research study titled “A STUDY ON STRESS MANAGEMENT AMONG EMPLOYEES AT SAKTHI FINANCE LIMITED, COIMBATORE” was conducted to find out the factor causing stress among employees and to know how they cope up with stress. The Research design used was a descriptive research. The primary data has been collected through a questionnaire method. The sample design used in the study was Convenience Sampling Technique with a sample size of 60. The collected data has been analysed through various tools like Percentage Analysis, Chi- Square Test & ANOVAs, and Factor Analysis.
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Where stress is low, one may find that his/her performance is low because of
boredom, lack concentration and motivation. Where stress is too high, the
performance can suffer from all the symptoms of excessive short-term stress. In the
middle, at a moderate level of stress, there is a zone of best performance. If one can
keep oneself within this zone, then that person will be sufficiently aroused to perform
well while not being over-stressed and unhappy.
This graph, and this zone of optimum performance, is different shapes for different
people. Some people may operate most effectively at a level of stress that would leave
other people either bored or in pieces. It is possible that someone who functions
superbly at a low level might experience difficulties at a high level. Alternatively
someone who performs only moderately at low level might perform exceptionally
under extreme pressure.
The best way of finding your optimum level of stress is to keep a stress diary for a
number of weeks.
Long term stress:
The problems of long term, sustained stress are more associated with fatigue, morale
and health than with short term adrenaline management.
The graph below shows the way in which performance can suffer when someone is
under excessive long-term stress:
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The graph shows stages that a person may go through in response to sustained levels
of excessive stress:
• During the first phase a person will face challenges with plenty of energy.
One’s response will probably be positive and effective.
• After a period of time one may begin to feel seriously tired. The person may
start to feel anxious, frustrated and upset. The quality of one’s work may begin
to suffer.
• As high stress continues one may begin to feel a sense of failure and may be ill
more frequently. A person may also begin to feel exploited by his/her
organization. At this stage the person may start to distance himself/herself
from the employer, perhaps starting to look for a new job.
• If high levels of stress continue without relief one may ultimately experience
depression, burnout, nervous breakdown, or some other form of serious stress
related illness.
Different people may move between these stages with different speeds under different
stress conditions.
At a simple level it may appear that a measure of 'toughness' is how well a person
keeps on going under extreme stress. This is simplistic. It is certainly possible to be
self-indulgent and use stress as an excuse for not pushing yourself hard enough. It is,
however, also far too easy to let yourself be pushed to a level where your work, and
physical and mental health start to suffer. The strongest and most flexible position is
to actively manage your levels of stress and fatigue so that you are able to produce
high quality work over a long period, reliably.
High performance in your job may require continued hard work in the face of high
levels of sustained stress. If this is the case, it is essential that you learn to pay
attention to your feelings. This ensures that you know when to relax, slacken off for a
short period, get more sleep, or implement stress management strategies. If you do not
take feelings of tiredness, upset or discontent seriously, then you may face failure,
burnout or breakdown.
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There are good strategies for avoiding or surviving these that are beyond the scope of
certain books.
Ways to identify your stress:
Inability to Concentrate
Inability to Sleep
Inability to Relax
Physical Manifestations
Making a stress management plan:
Stress management starts with identifying the sources of stress in your life. This isn’t
as easy as it sounds. Your true sources of stress aren’t always obvious, and it’s all too
easy to overlook your own stress-inducing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sure,
you may know that you’re constantly worried about work deadlines.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objective of this project is to understand the concept of job stress and its
impact on employees.
To identify the factors influencing the job stress of employees in the working
environment and correlation between stressors.
To identify if there is any significance difference between stress variable with
reference to gender category.
To identify measures to reduce stress, in order to increase the skills of the
employees.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research is defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the
investigation of matter. The primary aim for applied research is discovering,
interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of
human knowledge. Research refers to search for knowledge. It is a scientific and
systematic search for pertinent information on a specific topic.
Type of Research:
Descriptive research is been adopted for the study, which includes surveys and fact
finding enquiries of different kinds. Descriptive research is also known as statistical
research.
Sources of Data
Primary data- The primary data are those, which are collected afresh for the first
time, and thus happen to be original in character.
Sampling
Sampling is that part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of
individual observations intended to yield some knowledge about a population of
concern, especially for the purposes of statistical inference.
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Sampling size
The total sample size for the study was 150, conveniently selected from the
employee who is working in various departments of Semansys Technologies.
Sampling method
Convenience sampling method is used for the study. Convenience sampling,
sometimes called grab or opportunity sampling; this is the method of choosing items
arbitrarily and in an unstructured manner from the frame. Though almost impossible
to treat rigorously, it is the method most commonly employed in many practical
situations.
Mode of data collection
The questionnaire was used as the data collection instrument. A questionnaire is a
research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the
purpose of gathering information from respondents.The data is collected through
interview schedule. (i.e.) interviewing the people and their responses are collected in a
predefined structured questionnaire. Questionnaires have advantages over some other
types of surveys in that they are cheap; do not require as much effort.
Tools and Techniques Used For Analysis
Percentages are used to compare the relative terms and the distribution of two or more
series of data. Also a mere descriptive form of the percentage analysis is shown in the
form of graphs and charts. SPSS tool is used to find the correlation between various
stressors and Homogeneous T test is used to find the gender variability and frequency
table is been used.
FINDINGS
1. Major factors contributing to stress:
WORKLOAD
VULNERABILITY
LOW PHYSICAL CONDITION
2. There is significant correlation between WORKLOAD and EMOTIONAL
EXHAUSTION.
3. There is no significant difference in stress variable with reference to gender.
SUGGESTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS
The company can go for some relaxation activity program for the employees in
order to reduce the tension of the employees.
The company can also focus on training the employees how to make decision in
pathetic situation.
The company should provide program for improving a person attitude and
development process.
Counseling session can be held for the employees showing the symptom of stress.
Organization should offer wellness program.
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Deep relaxation should be provided for the employees for 10 to 20 minutes.
Physical exercise increases heart capacity, provide a mental diversion for work
pressure and let off stream.
Leisure time can be provided to the employees and may feel relaxed and work.
Organization can focus on creating awareness program on the negative impact on
the consuming alcoholic and cigarette.
Organization can often go with the brain storming games that keep employee
active participants in each and every matter which help in increase in
concentration.
Organization can have a focus on providing yoga to the employees.
CONCLUSION
The study on work stress has revealed that the respondents feel that they are satisfied
with the environment where they are working and they are happy with the effective
team work among the employees. The employees are happy with the working hours
given to them by the company to do the job. The company can concentrate on
providing some stress relief program which helps them to reduce the stress level. The
employees are satisfied with the company environment and they are working with the
medium stress level in the organization.
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