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Stress Reduction & Workplace Wellness Program
Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
This is a 100% free online MBSR training course, developed by a fully licensed MBSR tutor, and modelled based on the Jon Kabat-Zinn program founded at the Medical school of Massachusetts University. The people the program targets are those that cannot take live MBSR courses for either logistical or financial reasons. Each of the several materials utilized during the live course, which include videos and articles on meditation, are available online for free (MBSR, N.D). The Workplace Wellness and Stress Reduction Program has the ability to inculcate a change in business and professional culture. When both workers and employers learn effective ways to deal with stress, the long-term benefits in terms of cost reduction and increased productivity are quite numerous. Apart from minimizing stress, awareness and mindfulness training can also cultivate mental alertness, flexibility, resiliency, initiative, creativity and intuition, among members of work teams, within individuals, and with the entire organization. In clinical studies, mindfulness has proven to be a very effective remedy for the adverse effects of stress (Walker, n.d).
Almost all conscientious human resource managers in the business world today understand the...
Reducing stress in the workplace play a very vital role in enhancing long-term workers' happiness, worker productivity and retention, which leads to more comprehensive new initiatives on mind and body wellness. Making stress reduction a part of wellness programs can be quite helpful. The level of damage done in the workplace by high stress levels cannot be overemphasized. From low productivity and increased cost of healthcare, to costly workers' turnover, there are several reasons for human resource managers and leaders to act. Stress results in increased costs of healthcare for business, lower employee productivity, and reduce morale among employees, leading to reduced retention abilities and other related hiring costs.
In a nutshell, stress is a big deal in the workplace, and paying attention to it is of great importance. Furthermore, stress can lead to every type of ill in the workplace, such as reduced team outlook, reduced desire to provide the needed help for others to find solutions to problems they are facing at work, reduced motivation and workers' disengagement. According to a study by King's College London, stress does not stop at reducing morale among the employees and inhibiting the maximization of their potentials, but they are likely…
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Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). (n.d.). Retrieved May 11, 2016, from http://palousemindfulness.com/
Walker, T. (n.d.). Stress Reduction & Workplace Wellness Program. Retrieved May 11, 2016, fromhttp://thehealingcircle.ca/resources/articles-and-readings/stress-reduction-workplace-wellness-program/
Employee Wellness Program Company Background Benefits of the Employee Wellness Program Employee Needs Assessment Components of the Program Marketing of the Program Implementation of the Plan Evaluation of the Plan This paper aims at developing an employee wellness program for the organization so as to ensure that the due attention is paid to the health and wellness issues that are being confronted by the employees. The paper would also propose strategies for the effective marketing and evaluation of
G., interrupted when speaking) Someone interfered with your work activities (Kowalski, Harmon, Yorks & Kowalski, 2003, p. 39) One can see from this list that there is a significant development of aggression, in relatively mild forms that probably occurs across the board, to some degree in every business environment. Workplace aggression, between low level employees as well as between supervisors and employees is clearly a significant cause of workplace stress as well
In turn, teachers and their leaders should take steps to increase the responsibility for managing their schools and assessing the performance of their peers. (1990) The work of Charles Kowalski entitled: "Caring for Teachers in Uncaring Schools" (2002) states that stress in teachers "can be more insidious than in other professions by its "fuzzy" nature: it arises from a vague system of rules and returns; it is often self-inflicted; and
…Occupational Stress and Scientific MonitoringLiterature Review2.1 IntroductionThe definition of the term �occupational stress� is derived from the definition of its two constituent words. In this context, occupational refers to anything that is related to the workplace while stress is defined as a natural body reaction from physical, mental or emotional strain in an individual. Thus, occupational stress can be defined as any mechanism by which the body attempts to adapt
The subjects were 613 injured Army personnel Military Deployment Services TF Report 13 admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from March 2003 to September 2004 who were capable of completing the screening battery. Soldiers were assessed at approximately one month after injury and were reassessed at four and seven months either by telephone interview or upon return to the hospital for outpatient treatment. Two hundred and forty-three soldiers
Cardio-vascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and leads the statistics for emergency room (ER) cases. This literature review combines two primary causative agents in CVD: (1) Stress in the workplace, and (2) Middle Age. This review will explore one of the key reasons why the harmful ramifications of stress and middle age can be nullified or, at least, reduced -- through physical activity and exercise. Job stress is