Effective management strategies and responsible human resource are solutions to control work stress related problems. Today, most of us have to wake up and rush early in the morning, to go to work, attend to our families, do house works, accomplish unending chores etc.. And often than not, after all the work we did all day, ironically, we will call it a day by planning for the next day and rewarding our self with late night sleeps. Our shoulders are just heavily loaded with responsibilities. However, we find satisfaction and life purpose in accomplishing something, especially when doing it makes us feel happy or we love and enjoy what we do. In some point this is not always the case. Like in workplace, if we love our job, days pass so quick but when we do not, every second of it, is a physical and mental suffering. But, we need to earn for a living. Although at times, even we like what we do; people around us and other external factors can make it so difficult to do our job. For instance, the environmental condition of the workplace; untrained co-workers who are not prepared to do their job; unfair treatment of the bosses, unclear descriptions of the role and responsibility of the workers which could result to workers encroachment to other’s job, are just few factors which could make life in …show more content…
This department can lessen the burden and stress of the present workers by training and conducting proper preparation of the newly hired employee on the nature of their work and on what are the expectations. Like when it is a fast phase in environment, he must be alert and quick, or when one is working in health department, he must be extra careful of handling body fluids etc. On workers confidence and skills problem, free trainings should be provided. A proper administration of workers compensation is also important to take away financial stress on
Using the concepts of flow from Csikszentmihalyi, these authors hypothesized that by experiencing flow at work would create a positive leadership role, which would eventually lead to a great satisfaction in their job (Smith, Koppes, and Vodanovich). When a person is satisfied with their job, they are more likely to be organized and perform to their greatest capability. Some researchers have attempted to use flow to measure the relationship between the usage of flow and the attitudes of the employees while doing their job. The more an employee uses flow in their day-to-day work life, the happier the employee will be in the well-being of life (Fullagar and Kelloway). Using psychological flow in everyday work life has been proven to be extremely beneficial in creating a happy employee that is satisfied with the work that he or she is doing. Researcher Bakker has said that while experiencing flow, a person should feel an intense feeling of accomplishment and fulfilment, just while performing the task that they are expected to do everyday in their jobs (Bakker). Contrary to Csikszentmihalyi’s definition of flow, researcher Bakker (2008) defines “flow as the experience of complete absorption, enjoyment, and intrinsic motivation.” This definition is different from Csikszenmihalyi’s because of Bakker’s lack of focus on one specific task at hand. Csikszenmihalyi’s definition of flow is more precise for completing a task that requires stress as to where Bakker’s is a broad sense of satisfaction when completing any task. Having many different researchers offer their perspective of psychological flow is
The pressure can come from the need to make minimum wage money or a parent deciding on what their kids need to do financially. When choosing something to take interest in, they are content and adore what they do. Love for their work profession encourages a positive attitude and this is needed for productivity. When an employee loves what they do, they attain constructive behavior. But, when productivity is sacrificed, it begins to suffer with negative employees who only work to make a change.
Transformational leaders want everyone to find their personal meaning in life because it will help each individual to seek a job that is meant for them. According to Ghadi, Fernando, and Caputi (2013), “individuals seek to experience meaningful work that maximizes their sense of motivation… established the interconnection of meaningful work and personal motivation, and found that meaningful work-maximizes the possibility of intrinsic motivation.” Once an employee finds a job that is meaningful to them, it helps t...
The case study, The New Principal: Managing Human Resources by Jane A. MacDonald (2006) brings to light many issues a first-year principal could face. For this analysis, I am going to focus on three main ideas: school readiness for change, integrating technology, and human resource needs. All of concerns and tasks that Ms. Zola identified during her brief visit to Roma Elementary fall into one of those overarching ideas.
People while at work are often under psychological pressure. In the "risk group" fall supervisors and managers, people who work with clients, secretaries, salesmen, teachers and indeed, almost any job - the source of stress. According to a 2007 nationwide poll by the American Psychological Association, “three-quarters of Americans list work as a significant source of stress, with over half of those surveyed indicating that their work productivity suffered due to stress” (2013). Why the cause of stress is usually related to our performance at work? Because we spend a third of our life time at work and there are different surprises awaiting for us.
What can be done to manage and/or apply preventative measures to prevent stress in the workplace?
An organizational human resources department utilizes the hiring and firing process to meet the organization’s personnel needs. Organizational human resource departments are charged with the oversight of an organizations administration department. The practice of hiring and firing people is a process employer’s conducts on a daily basis. This process has to be done in a proper manner and not in haste. The implication that can occur from the improper hiring and firing process could and can have a positive or negative impact on an organization. Therefore, employers must carefully evaluate their decision to hire/fire individuals and its impact on the organizations’ workplace environment and others employees. Human Resource Management is important for an effective organization. In today’s organization, HRM is valuable to the organization because of increase legal complexities and its known for improvement in productivity. However, management should realize that poor human resource management could result in an outburst of hiring process followed by firing or layoffs. According to (Satterlee 2013, p. 194), “Hiring the best candidate who is also a good fit for the organization is crucial for the success of an organization, because a poor hiring decision will have repercussions across the entire organization”. Satterlee made a valid point because poor hiring could have an impact on the bottom line performance of the firm. In other words, HRM is the contributing factor to the success of the organization including motivating and maintain the staffs. The purpose to the motivation is to ensure that all employees grow to a full potential. According to (Sims 2006, p. 5), “HRM efforts are planned, systematic approaches to increasing organizati...
Completing a task, whether it be mentally challenging or physically challenging, in order to reach a certain goal, is what defines work. When that work starts to bring in income for you, you can categorise that work as your career. Many people look at their job from a different angle in order to improve the satisfaction that they get from it. They try to find enjoyment out of their job in order to see it from a different angle and seek some enjoyment out of it. By definition, if you are getting any sort of pleasure from your work or you are completely satisfied with the way it’s going, if you are receiving income for the work then it cannot be considered as working. Throughout this essay, points will be made in order to back this up as well as stating ways in which pleasure can be found in your work by enforcing a positive workplace. By shining positive light into a workplace, we are able to increase the
Motivation is key in the workplace. It is developed from the collaboration of both conscious and unconscious principles such as the strength of desire or need, motivating force or reward estimation of the objective, and desires of the person and of his or her peers/co-workers. These elements are the reasons one has for carrying on a specific way. An illustration is an understudy that invests additional energy contemplating for a test since he or she needs a superior review in the class. The Inside and outside principles that animate want and vitality in individuals to be constantly intrigued and centered around their work, part or subject, or to try to achieve an objective.
Human nature can be very simple, yet more complex too. An understanding and appreciation of this is a prerequisite to effective employee motivation in the workplace and therefore effective management and success of organization to attain its objectives.
Every organisation in the world today is putting a lot of efforts, time, and resources in the human management. As this is, an excepted reality that no organisation in the world can vie in this globalised world just on the mere basis of their product and services. In order for an organisation to be successful, it has to invest substantially into the domain of people skills, and their behaviour. Due to stressful working environment, many organisations loose employees due to lack of motivation, stress, lower employee job satisfaction and other contributing factors of behavioural sciences and psychology. All these factors have negative effects on the organisation and organizational behaviour simultaneously. Many experts are in concord that all these factors create disoriented and unmotivated employees and affect the organizational overall targets and higher dissatisfaction of the employees.
It is my intention in this essay to explore some issues around motivation and cite work based experiences to illustrate and substantiate any arguments or points of view.
Stress is a dynamic condition in which an individual is confronted with an opportunity, constraint, or demand related to what they desires and for which the outcome is perceived for both uncertain and important. Robbins claimed that not all stress are negative and some may be a healthy stress as such, pressure of heavy workloads and tight datelines are the positive challenge that can enhance the quality and satisfaction of job. Robbins, referring to A Model of Stress (exhibit 18-9) identified three set of stress factors; environment, organisational and individual. Although Robbins confess that such level of stress may be functional and may lead to higher employee’s performance, the employees perspective may be differ. Individual may not want to have any amount of stress in their life depending on how they manage their lifestyle. In this topics, Robbins believed that many people have a problem with their time management. He promotes a work life balance by making a daily to do list, activity prioritize based on importance and urgency, and knowing the daily set of the most demanding part in individual’s life. Apart from that, Robbins suggest that random physical activity and relaxation techniques can be among the popular activity to reduce individual’s level of stress. From the other point of view, organisation can be another source of stress for the individual. However, the way each individual response to their stress may be differ from one
In order to find a solution to the issue of stress in the workplace, it is important to first understand what stress is. Stress is a difficult issue to solve because everyone experiences stress differently. According to the National Institute of mental health, stress can be defined as the brain’s response to any demand (“Fact Sheet on Stress”). When there is any sort of change going on, it usually triggers the stress response. Since people are always dealing with certain changes in their lives, they are always dealing with some type of stress. One of the biggest growing issues with stress is stress in the workplace. According to Northweste...
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Once said by a brilliant man Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder, chairman and CEO. This quote expired myself to create a truly satisfied place that I want to work and will love doing.