This document discusses stress management in schools. It defines stress and explains its causes and effects. Stress can be caused by communication gaps, teacher behavior, workload, complaints, and poor student performance. The school manager's role is to minimize stress through clarifying expectations, encouraging communication, implementing time management, and offering stress reduction workshops. Managing stress benefits teachers by improving goal achievement, confidence, efficiency and focus, while reducing stress prevents physical fatigue, negative attitudes, shaken confidence, and clashes that could lead to job loss.

1. Subject: School Management

3. STRESS
MANAGEMENT

4. WHAT IS STRESS ??

6. Define the term of Stress
Definitions:
“Stress is person’s psychological response to
an external or internal stimulus.”

7. Stress Management
Definition:
“Stress and stress management is a very
personal, or subjective thing. It is based on
your personality, experience, and what has
worked in the past.”

8. Explanation……
Stress is a general term applied to various
mental and physiological pressure
experienced or felt by people in their lives.
Some stress is normal even useful. Stress can
help if you need to work hard or react quickly.
But if stress too long, it can have bad effects.

9. Causes of stress in any organization
 The following causes can create stress in any
organization for the management.
– Communication gap between students and teachers.
– Not good behavior of teachers with their colleagues
and students.
– Syllabus completion on time.
– No punctuality observed of school timing as well as
periods of class.

10. Cont…
– Complaints from parents regarding studies /
performance.
– Lack of knowledge of teachers.
– In appropriate language of teachers with students.
– Shortage of staff/teachers which cause of work
burden on management.
– Lack of communication between teachers and
management

11. Cont…
– No paying salary to teachers/staff well in time.
– Improper evaluation of students.
– Improper maintaining the discipline in class
rooms.
– Lack of attention to the weak students.
– Weak performance and less result can create the
stress for school management.

12. Role of school manager in managing
stress
 Managers of any organization have a dual
perspective of stress. They need to be aware
of their own stress level, as well as those of
their colleagues.
– Managers can take active steps to minimize
undesirable stress in themselves and their
subordinates.
– Clarifying task assignments, responsibilities,
authority and criteria for performance evaluation.

13. – Clarifying goals to meet the higher level of
performance.
– Managers can encourage employees to search for
more information when they are given unfamiliar
task, or when they are uncertain of their roles.
– Incorporate time management techniques, as well
as time schedule for completion of projects.
– The role of management becomes one of
maintaining and appropriate level of stress by
providing and optimal/favorable environment by
doing good jobs/tasks such as performance
planning interpersonal skills training.

14. Cont…
– Stress reduction workshops.
– Provide support to staff related to all aspects of
stress management elements.
– Time to time monitoring the performance of all
teachers and students.

15. Whenever an employ of an educational
organization go through a stress he has to face
a lot of problems. But if he manages to
overcome his /her stress a lot of things come
in his benefit

16. Benefits Of Rectifying or Minimizes
Stress:
 Easy to achieve goals:
The goals set by the stress facing person may
disrupt. If he minimizes the stress, the way
towards achieving goals become more
smoother.
 Self confidence:
Rectifying the stress issue boost up the self
confidence of an employ in result of which
his/her performance increases.

17. Cont…
 Efficiency increases:
The efficiency of stress managing person
increases, when he comes out of the situation
of stress.
 Task oriented working:
When an employ is working under stress he
may disturbed from the task given. Being
successful in managing stress his working
become task oriented.

18. Cont…
 Good books in school manager
By managing stress one benefit comes in the
favor of an employ that he comes in good
books in school manager.
 Feel free
The employ of an educational organization
feel a sense of freedom and happiness due
managing his stress

19. Negatives or disadvantages of stress
 Physical fatigue
Stress may cause different practices which
may cause physical fatigue to the employ in
result of which his performance may
decreases.
 Negative attitude
Under stress employ may undergo the
negative attitudes towards his or her work, co-
worker or students

20. Cont…
 Shaken confidence
The employ confidence may decreases by working
under stress.
 Clashes with colleagues or management
Stress may increases negative thinking and fatigue
which changes an employ attitude and he behaves
angrily and rudely.
 Job fired
Stress may decreases efficiency and put a lot of
negativities for an employ which result in the loose
of his job.