Stress

Management
Group 1
Alisalman Rudani
Aleema Haider
Aniqa Fatima
Areeba Nayer
Hadi Zaidi
Maaz Aziz
Syeda Naba Zaidi
Zahra Kirmani

Contents
1. Definition
2. Sources of Stress
3. Consequences of Stress
4. Employers perspective
5. Employees perspective
6. Triple A approach- Stress Free life
7. CONCLUSION

What is Stress?

Stress A dynamic condition in which an individual is

confronted with an opportunity, constraint, or demand
related to what he or she desires and for which the outcome
is perceived to be both uncertain and important.

Types and Sources

Challenging vs Hindrance
Environmental
Pressures from Investor
Changing environment (threat of layoff)
Political and Technological changes
Organizational factors
Task demands
Role demands
Interpersonal demands
Personal factors
Family, economic and personality

Consequences of Stress

Physiological Symptoms

Head aches, high blood pressure, heart diseases

Psychological Symptoms
Anxiety, depression, decreased job satisfaction
Behavioral symptoms
Lower productivity, increased absenteeism

Employers: How to Reduce Stress in

Your Organization?
Organizational Culture
Demands

Workload
Violence and aggression

Control
Relationships
Change
Role
Support, Training etc.

Employees: What to do in a stressful

organization?

Not dealing with work related stress can cause physical and
psychological problems

Primary interventions

Risk assessments to identify, control and reduce employees

stress

Removal of stress factors

Secondary are individual protective measures in respect of work

related stress

Written record of problems

Hazard reporting
Safety Reps
Blame free environment
Audits
Employee assistive programs and counselling services

Employees: What to do in a stressful

organization?

Tertiary interventions are for those who have already

taken periods of sickness absence as a result of
stress.

Rehabilitation policy
Ill health retirement scheme
Civil cases for compensation

Triple
A
Avoid
Alter

Accep
t

Alter Approach by:

Thinking positively and having a

positive attitude.

Improving specific skills that will help

manage the situation.

Doing something differently.

Avoiding:
Identifying the things that one needlessly stress about.
How to remove those items from your life.

Appropriate If:
Repercussions are non-existent or extremely minor.
Other people are not negatively impacted.

Inappropriate if:
Avoiding will cause more stress in the long term.
Will transfer stress to someone else.
Will negatively impact your health.

Accepting:
In

this world nothing can be said to be certain, except

death and Taxes Benjamin Franklin
Cope with things that cant be changed.
Thing that need to be done even though they are uncertain.
Accepting the situation and being as positive as possible about it.

CONCLUSION

1.Stress is BAD
2.Stress Management

Workshop is a GOOD idea

Try NOT to think of

Sibtain Haider

Ironic Process Theory

Ironic Process Theory = The psychological process whereby
deliberate attempts to reduce certain thoughts make them
more likely to surface.

Deliberate attempts to reduce stress might actually increase

stress levels.

Stress Management Workshop= Deliberate attempt to reduce

stress

Workshop= Unproductive?

We need to reduce stress because

stress is bad.

Eustress- Good Stress

Eustress- Good Stress

Eustress

Beneficial stress
"Healthy, constructive outcome of stressful events and the stress
response" or "positive psychological response to a stressor,
indicated by the presence of positive psychological states."
Motivation
Not defined by the stressor type, but rather how one perceives
that stressor !

Aim of Stress Managment

Rather than decrease
distress/ stress in the
workplace, SM
techniques should
attempt to increase
Eustress i.e. positive
reactions to stressful
stimuli

QUESTION
S?