Sudhanshu Jaiswal – Kapil Mishra –

WHAT IS STRESS ? ? ?
STRESS IS DEFINED AS THE FORCE
ACROSS A "SMALL" BOUNDARY PER UNIT
AREA OF THAT BOUNDARY, FOR ALL
ORIENTATIONS OF THE BOUNDARY.
STRES

STRESS IS ON “Y AXIS” - Dependent

S

Variable

STRAIN IS ON “X AXIS” – Independent

Variable

STRESS is induced because of STRAIN

STRAI
STRESS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Stress is an adaptive response
to an external situation that
results in physical,
psychological, and/or
behavioural deviations for
organizational participants
Stress arises when an individual
perceives that the demand from
the stressors far exceeds the
ability of the person to respond
STRESSORS – Sales Targets,
Peer Pressure, Work Conditions,
Work Travel, Shifts/Working
Hours,
Performance ∝ Stress – Till Moderate
Performance ∝ 1/Stress – Beyond Moderate
 DIFFERENT TYPES OF STRESSORS

INDIVIDUAL LEVEL GROUP LEVEL ORGANIZATIONAL EXTRA-

ORGANIZATIONAL

SUPPORT ? MANAGEMENT STYLE

OVERLOAD FAMILY
CONFLICT CONCERN ? WORK ENVIRONMENT
ECONOMY
AMBIGUITY NO DIRECTION ORG. STRUCTURE
QUALITY OF LIFE
PERSONALITY TYPES NO APPRECIATION ORG./MGMNT LIFE
CYCLE ACQUAINTANCE
-VE FOCUS PRESSURE
CASE OF RICHARD
Richard Field had a lot of fun in high school. He was a fairly
good in math , he worked harder than most of his friends,
and somehow he ended up going steady with Aarohi Philips,
class mate. He worked summers for a local surveyor, Jhon
Dawson, and when he graduated Mr. Dawson offered him a
job as number-three man on one of his survey crews.
The pay wasn’t very high, but Richard was satisfied with
that. 
Then he got married with Aarohi. Once he did, events
unfolded rapidly. 
 
He started work in June, he and Aarohi were married in
October, Aarohi took a job as a secretary in a local company
that made business forms, and a year later they had their
first child.
CASE OF RICHARD
Richard wasn’t mentally prepared for the baby. He had come to enjoy
the independence his own pay check gave him every week , paying
basketball and spending Sundays with friends.  

He still wasn’t making much money. He asked Mr. Dawson for a raise
and got it—his first. Two months later, one of the crew chiefs quit ,
he made Richard a crew chief, giving his crew some of the old
instruments not good enough for the precision work of the top crews,
and assigned him the easy title surveys in town. Because it meant a
jump in salary, Richard had no choice but to accept the crew chief
position. But it scared him. He had never been very ambitious or
curious, so he’d paid little attention to the training of his former
crew chief.

During his first few months as a crew chief, Richard began doing
things that his wife thought he had outgrown. He began smoking, too,
something he had not done since they had started dating.
CASE OF RICHARD
Richard found it particularly hard to adjust to being "boss,". He felt
sure that Alfonso Reyes, the scholar, would take over his position in
no time. He kept feeling that Alfonso was looking over his shoulder
and began snapping any time they worked close together.
Things were getting tense at home, too. Aarohi had to give up her
full-time day job to take care of the baby, so she had started
working nights. 
They hardly ever saw each other, and it seemed as though her only
topic of conversation was how they should move to California or
Alaska, where she had heard that surveyors were paid five times
what Richard made.
Richard knew his wife was dissatisfied with her work and believed her
intelligence was being wasted, but he didn’t know what he could do
about it. He was disconcerted when he realized that drinking and
worrying about the next day at work while sitting at home with the
baby at night had become a pattern.
WHATS HAPPENING WITH
RICHARD
The Brain Moods Management has two limbic
system :
Open loop and Closes loop.
Open loop depends upon connections to other
people.
And Close loop transmit neurological, hormonal,
blood pressure and electromagnetic messages
among organs within the body.

In Richard’s case his closed loop system was

hijacked
SIGNS OF STRESS THAT RICHARD
FIELD WAS EXHIBITING:
Richard field was first possessed by the fear of
responsibility of baby. Then after getting new
job as crew member his stress grew seeing his
colleagues progressing and he felt like he was
going to lose his job soon.

After that his relationship with wife was getting

ruined due to his stress.

Richard was negatively handling his stress by

smoking and getting bitter and dating others.
HOW SHOULD RICHARD OVERCOME HIS
STRESSED WORK AND OFFICE LIFE?
 Express your feeling: Instead of stressing out Richard could
have discussed his current situation with wife and his boss.
 Focus on Positive Thinking: When we are in stress a lot of
negativity surrounds us and we loose our focus. The same thing
was happening with Richard. As a suggestion he could change his
perspective about his job and start focusing to improve his
behaviour.
 Try to convert work Pressure into Eustress: Richard got an
opportunity to work in higher position in his organisation . He
should have changed his perspective and felt motivated for his
new position instead of being intimidated by hi colleague.
 Consider alternatives: If the stress was hampering his work-
life balance then he should have considered other options of job
and place switch . Sometimes new environment helps to de-
stress helps in bringing out effective and efficient attitude.
 STRESS MANAGEMENT

JOB REDESIGN
MEDITATION
COLLECTIVE GOAL
TIME MANAGEMENT SETTING
RECREATION/HOBBIES TEAM EVENTS
COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING ENHANCING EMPLOYEE
PRE-PLANNED VACATIONS PARTICIPATION
MUSCLE RELAXATION ROLE ANALYSIS &
CLARITY
PLANNED WORK BREAKS
 “MANAGE STRESS BEFORE IT MANAGES
YOU”

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