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Each may be an occasion for happiness or great sadness. As Dr. Rosch explained, there are good stressors and bad stressors.
On the job, a boss that micro-manages creates a bad kind of stress, versus a boss that pushes his or her employees to constantly do their best in a positive way. The pride in accomplishment may be the difference in the two kinds of stress. A good stress results in a win-win situation, where, even though you may not have won the game, you have accomplished a lot in the preparation for playing it. Recent scientific studies have established that having deep personal convictions and values can do wonders for most aspects of one's physical and emotional well-being. (Cooper 5) bad stress results in a loss situation, which adds to anxiety. A bad boss who pushes, threatens and belittles his or her employees will give insufficient rewards to employees to accomplish what they have been prodded to do. Even if a reward is given, the destructive process employees have gone through in order to receive it has created a greater loss than any profit that could have been gained by winning it. Giving employees positive emotional support when they are on the job, creating good relations between employees with social events and making sure employees take breaks and lunches when they are available will bring up work production. In addition, creating an ergonomically correct, highly ethical and comfortable environment to work in and by rewarding workers for any improvements is a positive and rewarding way for management to relieve stress among workers. (Rosch 2) management, whether it is older workers or new, incoming Gen-Xers, can take a lesson from the past, the Bible and experts on stress and stress management to create a change for the better in the mental health of tomorrow's workers. By supporting an ethical, caring and healthy environment to work in, a healthier and happier worker than in the past may emerge.
A cycle of repeated negative stress on employees will create low morale and high turnover levels among employees. When bad stress is present, management must work harder to prevent a loss of productivity created by the constant training of new employees and the propping up of older, stressed-out employees.
References
Cooper, K.H. (1997). Faith-based Fitness. Nashville, TN: Nelson Books.
Robbins, S. And Judge, T., (2004) Organizational Behavior. New York: Prentice Hall.
Rosch, P.J. (2006). Stress reduction, stress relievers. The American Institute of Stress. Retrieved on December 6, 2006 at http://www.stress.org/topic-reduction.htm.
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