ORGANIZING

Change and Stress

Change and Conflict

Charifiel E. Parohinog

1.Change and Stress

1.1 Defining Stress

1.2 Managing Stress in Organization
1.3 Identifying Unhealthy Stress in Organization
1.4 Helping Employees Handle Stress

2. Change and Conflict

2.1 Defining Conflict
2.2 Strategies for Settling Conflict
2.3 Defining a Virtual Organization and
Reasons

for Establishing

DEFINING STRESS
STRESS

A result of coping with some environmental

factors.
Constitutes the factors affecting wear and
tear on the body.
Every individuals feeling when confronted
with organizational or work demands.

MANAGING STRESS IN
ORGANIZATION
Managers must:
understand how stress influences worker
performance
identify where unhealthy stress exists
help employee handle stress

LEVEL OF WORKER PERFORMANCE VS.

WORKER STRESS

IDENTIFYING UNHEALTHY STRESS IN

ORGANIZATIONS
Constant fatigue
Low energy
Moodiness
Increased aggression
Excessive use of alcohol
Temper outbursts
Compulsive eating
High levels of anxiety

HELPING EMPLOYEES HANDLE

STRESS
Stressor an environmental demand that
causes people to feel stress.
continual layoffs or firings
organizational policies, structure, physical
conditions and processes.

4 Strategies:
1.Create an organizational climate that is supportive of individuals
2.The implementation of stress management courses
3.Make jobs interesting
4.Design and operate career counselling programs

HELPING EMPLOYEES HANDLE STRESS

DEFINING CONFLICT
CONFLICT
A struggle that results from opposing needs
Results from managers making changes
Sometimes results in positive impact

CHANGE AND CONFLICT

STRATEGIES FOR SETTLING

CONFLICT

Compromising
Avoiding
Forcing
Resolving

 Compromising managers compromise which means, the parties

to the conflict settle on a solution that gives both of them part of
what they wanted.
Avoiding managers simply ignore the conflict.
Forcing a more direct approach to managing conflict, managers
use authority to declare that conflict is ended.
Resolving the most direct and sometimes the most difficult way
to manage conflict, managers initiate this technique by
pinpointing differences related to organizational change.

STRATEGIES FOR SETTLING CONFLICT

DEFINING A VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION

Virtual

Organization

- network organizations or modular corporations

Virtual Corporation
- an organization that goes beyond the boundaries and
structure of a traditional organization by tying together a
companys stakeholdersemployees, suppliers, and customers
via email, the World Wide Web and other Internet related
vehicles.
Virtual Teams
- groups of employees formed by managers

THE VIRTUAL OFFICE

is a work arrangement that extends beyond the
structure and boundaries of the traditional office
arrangement.
Occasional
telecommutin
g

Hotelin
g

Tethered in
office

Home-based,
some
mobility

Fully mobile

Continuum of alternative work arrangements

REASONS FOR ESTABLISHING A

VIRTUAL OFFICE
Cost reduction
More than 50 % space reduction by using virtual
offices
Increase productivity
Redesigning jobs