Job Stress

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>JOB STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE
> Negative stress is the kind that wears down a person's
>ability to cope with even the most routine tasks. An individual
>who is at the end of his or her rope develops a skewed perception
>of reality and often begins to misconstrue things. While this
>negative stress may have initially started out as positive
>pressure, as in the case of a new job, the impact it carries with
>it as it mutates into a negative presence can have grave
>consequences upon one's physical and emotional being. These
>considerations are so prevalent that some corporations have
>implemented stress management courses to both address and
>intercept the problem in one of the most commonly found places:
>the work environment.
> There is certainly enough to deal with in the workplace to
>have the added pressure of stress. However, escaping
>environmental stress on the job is about as easy as not
>breathing: it just cannot be done. With that being the case,
>people must learn how to harness that negative stress and turn it
>into a more beneficial element or get rid of it altogether.
>Contemporary employers have come to realize the inherent hazards
>of work-related stress and how it directly affects job
>performance and the ultimate bottom line. It
>only stands to reason that if employees are pushed to the edge
>physically, emotionally or mentally, they will not be able to
>perform their duties with any reasonable proficiency. Because
>job stress -- and the management of it
>-- has become a focal point in the workforce, employers have
>found it necessary to implement stress management plans in order
>to once again harmonize the work environment. "HR managers now
>recognize undue stress as a real factor in the onset of illness
>as well as turnover, job dissatisfaction,
>decreased productivity and other workplace ills. And corporations
>are beginning not only to notice, but to try to do something
>abou...