Coping With Stress In An Organization

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Term Paper Title	Coping With Stress In An Organization
# of Words	2103
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Coping With Stress In An Organization

Coping With Stress In An Organization

26 November 1994

Table of Contents

                           I.  Introduction
                          II.  Defining Stress
                         III.  Types of Stress
                          IV.  How to Handle Stress
                           V.  Recognizing Stress
                          VI.  The Military and Stress
                         VII.  Summary

I.  INTRODUCTION

     Since the beginning of mankind there has always been some kind of stress
affecting how people feel, act and cope with situations.  In this paper we will
look at the definition of stress and what causes people to have stress.  Then we
will see how different people handle stress and show how not all individuals
have the same tolerance for stress.  The next thing that will be discussed is
how managers in organizations can recognize and reduce the negative effects that
stress has on the worker and the organization.  Finally we will consider what
kind of stresses there are in military organizations and how they can be
controlled.

II.  DEFINING STRESS

     Robert C. Dailey, in his book  Understanding People In Organizations,
defines stress as “any demand made on the body that requires psychological or
physical adjustment.”  Many people think of stress as always being something bad.
However, stress sometimes can be good.  Stress is part of our every day life.
It can have a motivating effect or a demotivating effect.  Each of us have our
own level of how much stimulation or stress we need in our lives to keep us from
getting bored.1  Others however, have a much lower tolerance for stress stimuli.
So managers must be able to look at each individual and decide if the individual
has a high or low tolerance for stress.  Managers can do this only if they have
a good understanding of what causes stress.

III.  TYPES OF STRESS

     Stress can come from a multitude of different reasons, but for
simplicity lets break it down into two forms:  individual induced stress and
physical environment stress.  Individual stress includes things such as role
conflict, role ambiguity, work overload, and responsibility for others.  Role
conflict occurs when accomplishing one job inhibits or greatly reduces the
chance at completing another assigned task.  In this case the person who is
tasked to do the jobs will incur some type of stress while trying to figure out
how to get both tasks accomplished in the given amount of time.  How much stress
and if it will impact the individual positively or negatively will depend on the
experience level of the individual.  Role a...

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