Topic: Stress Management Techniques: The Need to Rein in Stress at the Workplace Research Questions

1. What impact does employee stress at the workplace have on organizational performance?

2. What strategies and techniques should employees adopt so as to combat high workplace stress levels?

3. How would organizations benefit when employees are able to better handle stress in a more effective manner?

Thesis Statement

Employees need to be taught how to cope with stress so that they can perform better at the workplace. This would in turn further enhance organizational performance.

Type of Claim

In the words of Nazario, Borchers, and Lewis (2012), “there are four claims you can make in your thesis: claims of fact, claims of cause and effect, claims of value, and claims of policy” (p. 355). The claim in this case is a claim of cause and effect. This is more so the case given that it aims to highlight what exactly needs to be done so as to bring about desired change in some area. The cause, i.e. better stress management, will bring about better performance at the workplace (the effect).

Discussion

In the past, I have attempted to make the...

My argument was based on observations I have made over time regarding the impact of stress at my workplace. It is important to note that stress has been a real concern at my place of work. As a consequence of high stress levels, people are not as motivated as they ought to be in the performance of their duties. It is not uncommon for employees to neglect their duties and perform sub-optimally at tasks assigned to them. Also, absenteeism levels are quite high. Combined with lack of motivation, high absenteeism rates could bear significant costs for the organization. Lack of motivation gets in the way of good relations at the workplace thus effectively affecting teamwork, indiscipline, and triggering poor work ethic. Absenteeism costs, on the other hand, could include, but they are not limited to additional overtime hours and unnecessary delays in organizational activities (Hart, 2004). When employees fail to show up, arrangements may have to be made to assign urgent tasks to somebody else thus resulting in additional overtime hours (which attract premium rates). When it becomes difficult to find replacements, tasks may be delayed thus resulting…