Essay About Workplace Stress And New Programs

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What’s it like? –

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Learn to cope to a stress and emotional level.

“Do you experience stress in your work?”

You’ve worked for 40 to 60 Hours:

In this article we will take a look at how workers can and do cope with various stressful days and are doing with different stress levels.

“Why do you feel so sad and sad?

It’s because, after we’re working for 30 hours a day – how do you feel after we can get up, get down, go out and do something else without feeling sad and sad? –

• I am often very stressed…my workday is often full.

• Your experience: –
• What’s it like? –

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  Learn to cope to a stress and emotional level.

”For everyone, there is a lot of stuff you can do…insecurities, thoughts, feelings…which is something that everybody can relate to. It’s all happening in one small thing. There is no control over that alone. For the most part we are all human beings with a lot of different things we struggle with. And yet, I have to get better at things and keep improving. And I want myself to know that I can do it all.”

In a study conducted by Athabasca University in Alberta Canada concluded that “only 20% of respondents believed that IT has not increased the stress levels of employees and only 27% thought that their organization manages the introduction of change brought about by IT very well” (Robinson, Irving & Carr, 2001, p.45). These numbers are staggering simply because implementing new technologies in the workplace are usually intended to decrease the workload and stress of the employees, not increase it. The most apparent problem that employees have with new technology is that they feel their jobs could have been performed better the old way, which was usually manually.

Stress 3The first issue that leads to employee stress usually stems from the very beginning of the change, the building of the program. Normally IT specialists are just that, specialists, and are very competent in performing their job duties, but everyone has a bad idea, or an idea that has not been carefully thought through, every once in awhile. It is a fact that these programs are not always thought out properly and are insufficient from the very beginning. Then when bad training, poor access to technical support and the inability to get errors fixed in a timely manner are factored in, it can be a recipe for disaster.

The increase of workplace stress has caused many negative consequences in organizations today. In an article written in 2003, a study by the UKs Health and Safety Executive estimates that “work related stress accounts for more than a third of all new incidents of ill health, and that in the UK nearly thirteen million working days were lost to stress, depression, and anxiety in 2004-5” (Teed, 2006, p.4).

There are many things that an organization can do to relieve stress on its employees including adequate training of employees on new systems, programs to monitor and prevent IT issues, and employee stress relieving programs. The largest contributor to stress when new programs are implemented is lack of training for employees. Training would seem like an obvious step in the process, yet it is sometimes overlooked.

Stress 4Inadequate training is not usually done intentionally by upper management, yet it is something that happens entirely too often. Employees feel comfortable when they feel they know their job duties well. When a new way of doing the job is introduced, employees will immediately go on the defensive because they now feel lost in a world they used to know