This document discusses stress, its causes, and management. It defines stress and explains that stress can have positive or negative impacts depending on the situation. It identifies potential stressors like environmental factors, organizational factors, and personal factors. It also outlines the physiological, psychological, and behavioral consequences of stress. Finally, it provides recommendations for managing stress at the individual level through time management, exercise, relaxation, and social support, and at the organizational level through measures like job redesign, communication, wellness programs, and more.

1. STRESS
BY
KRISHNA SOUJANYA
M120002MS

2. Work stress and its Management
• Increasing problem in organization
• 54% employee in INDIA feel overworked
• Too much work, too little time
• Employees stress - balance work and family
responsibilities

3. What is Stress?
• Stress is a dynamic condition in which an individual is
confronted with an opportunity, demand, or
resource related to what the individual desires and
for which the outcome is perceived to be both
uncertain and important.

4. Stress Management
• Stress is not bad
• It also has positive values (athlete, students)
• Heavy workloads and deadlines as positive
challenges (quality and satisfaction enhanced)
• Challenge stressors and hindrance stressors
• Demand and resource

5. Understanding stress & its
consequences
• What cause stress?
• Effect of stress on different persons.
• Model of stress – potential sources of stress
• Symptoms – physiological, psychological, and
behavioral.

6. Categories of potential Stressors
•Environmental Factors
•Organizational Factors
•Personal Factors

7. Environmental Factors:
•ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTIES
•POLITICAL UNCERTAINTIES
•TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

8. Organizational Factors:
•Tasks Demands
•Role Demands
•Interpersonal Demands

9. Individual Differences
•Perception
•Job Experience
•Social Support
•Belief in locus of control
•Self- efficacy
•Hostility

10. Personal Factors:
•Family
•Economic Problems
•Personality

11. Consequences of Stress
• High blood pressure
• ulcers
• irritability
• difficulty in making routine decisions
• loss of appetite
• accident proneness etc.
• Hair loss

12. Managing Stress
o At individual level
o Implementing time management techniques
o Increasing physical exercises,YOGA..
o Relaxation techniques (Recreation activities)
o Expanding social network

13. Managing stress….
o At Organizational level
o Improved personnel selection & job placement
o Training
o Use of realistic goal setting
o Redesigning of jobs
o Improved organizational communication
o Increased employee involvement
o Establishment of corporate wellness programs