The document discusses stress management techniques for employees at both the organizational and individual level. At the organizational level, strategies include clarifying job roles, redesigning jobs, implementing stress reduction programs, offering wellness programs, fostering a supportive work climate, and providing counseling. For individuals, effective coping mechanisms are relaxation, time management, defining work-life boundaries, meditation, joining a support group, and regular exercise.

1. Strategic Human Resource
Management
BY
Rajavignesh.v

2. Stress Management
Techniques
TOPIC

3. Introduction:
Stress management is the ability to maintain control
when situations, People, and events make excessive
demands. Managing stress is all about taking charge of
employee’s thoughts, emotions, schedule, environment,
and the way they deal with problems.

4. Coping strategies for stress
Stress is inevitable in human life. There are two strategies
that can help the employees to cope with stress:
1. Coping strategies at organisational level,
2. coping strategies by individuals.

5. Coping strategies at
organisational level
1. Organisational Role Clarity
2. Job Re-Design
3. Stress Reduction and stress management programmes
4. Collateral Programmes (personal wellness)
5. Supportive Organisation Climate
6. counselling

6. 1. Organisational Role clarity:
people experience stress when they are not clear
about what they are expected to do in the organisation.
2. Job Re-Design:
Job may be a source of stress to many individuals.
Properly-designed jobs and work schedules can help ease
stress in the individuals and the organisation.
3. Stress Reduction and Stress Management
Programmes:
Stress reduction programmes aim to identify relevant
organisational stressors and thus to reduce their effects by
redesigning, reallocating workloads, improving supervisory
skill, providing more autonomy or job variety, etc.

7. 4. Collateral programmes (personal wellness):
organisation have adopted stress management
programmes, health promotions programmes, career
development programmes, counselling and other kinds of
programmes for the well being of the employess.
5.Supportive organisation climate:
Many organisation stressors emerge because of
faulty organisational policies and practice. To a great
extent, these can be controlled by creating supportive
organisational climate.

8. 6. Counselling:
counselling is discussion of a problem by a
counsellor with a view to help the employee cope with it
better. Counselling seeks to improve employees mental
health by the release of emotional tension which is also
known as emotional catharsis.

9. Coping strategies by individuals
1. Relaxation
2. Time Management
3. Role Management
4. Meditation
5. Support Group
6. Exercise

10. 1. Relaxation:
People can also relax while on the job. A
popular way of resting is to sit quietly with closed eye
for about ten minutes every afternoon.

11. 2. Time management:
Time management is often recommended for
managing stress. One popular approach to time
management is to make a list every morning of the things
to be done that day.

12. 3. Role management:
Under this, the individual works to avoid overload,
role ambiguity and role conflict. For example, if a
worker does not know what is expected of him, he should
ask for clarification from his boss. A worker should accept
extra work if he feels that he would able to do that.

13. 4. Mediation:
Another way to reduce stress is
mediation.

14. 5. Support group:
It is a group of friends or family members
with whom a person can share his feelings.

15. 6. Exercise:
Exercise can be a key, central method to compensate
for stressors.