STRESS MANAGEMENT IN

CORPORATE
AND
ITS IMPACT ON THE EMPLOYEES
HEALTH
GROUP 02:
Pooja (12)
Renu (13)
Sakthi Rubini.S (19)
Arpana (46)
Neha Niharika (55)
Disha gupta (57)
 Introduction

• Stress is the emotional and physical strain caused by our

response to pressure from the outside world. Common stress
reactions include tension, irritability, inability to
concentrate, and a variety of physical symptoms that include
headache and a fast heartbeat
• Human beings are not machines
• Productivity depends on capacity of the machines but
humans have their own threshold levels
• Incapability of individual to bare the increased workload
 Stress at work

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ARTICLES

By:
Disha Gupta
Roll no. 57
ARTICLE 1

IMPACT OF WORKPLACE STRESS REDUCTION PROGRAM ON

BLOOD PRESSURE AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH IN HYPERTENSIVE
EMPLOYEES

Rollin McCraty, PhD
HeartMath Research Center, Institute of HeartMath, Boulder Creek, C
Mike Atkinson,
Dana Tomasino, BA

Objectives: This study examined the impact of a workplace-based stress management

program on blood pressure (BP), emotional health, and workplace-related measures in
hypertensive employees of a global information technology company.

Conclusions: Results suggest that a brief workplace stress management intervention can
produce clinically significant reductions in BP and improve emotional health among hypertensive
employees. Implications are that such interventions may produce a healthier and more productive
workforce,
enhancing performance and reducing losses to the organization resulting from cognitive decline,
illness, and premature mortality.
ARTICLE 2
STRESS NOT ALWAYS UNHEALTHY: TEAM LEASE STUDY

Team Lease releases 7th survey in "India's New World of Work"

series on 'Stress at Workplace'; Around 27% respondents admitted
to have hit somebody when stressed - a low response reflecting
unacceptability of such means to alleviate stress levels.

According to Surabhi Mathur-Gandhi, General Manager, Permanent Staffing, Team Lease Services,
“The popular notion of stress as a negative force that causes discontentment and discord may be dated. Our
survey captures the bittersweet - but mostly sweet – feelings around workplace stress and coping
mechanisms that probably represent the youthification of India’s workforce.

The survey respondents included employees across the cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi,
Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. The respondents’ profile ranged between the age group of 30-
45 years across industries and functions of sales, marketing, business development, operations, finance,
admin/HR and systems (IT).
ARTICLE 3

HUMOR REDUCES JOB STRESS

Paul McGhee, PhD, www.LaughterRemedy.com

This research is based on corporate stress epidemic giving stress on international problem and
stating the fact that humour can be a way to reduce stress.

It has been estimated that 20% to 50% of the average American worker’s day is
wasted due to stress, boredom or general malaise on the job.

The United States is not the only country coping with increased levels of job stress but other countries
like UK, Japan, Europe, Switzerland are also facing the same thing.

The experience of a rapidly growing number of companies has shown that humor and fun on the job
support peak levels of job performance. This finding is supported by decades of research in
psychology showing that while a moderate
amount of tension, anxiety, or stress can boost performance, it progressively interferes
with performance as tension gets higher than this moderate level.
ARTICLE 4

HEALTH EFFECTS OF STRESS AND INSECURITY AMONG

EMPLOYEES IN BANKING SECTOR
Gianfranco Domenighetti
Jacqueline Quaglia
Annamaria Fahrlaender
Michele Tomamichel
Alain Kiener

•This study measures, on a representative sample of employees in the banking sector (N=428), the
prevalence of 18 work condition factors which may have an influence on the levels of stress and
insecurity.
•The analysis then points out the relationship between these two latter factors and 16 health indicators of
subjective morbidity and medical consumption.
•The main results show a significant increase in the prevalence of subjective morbidity and medical
consumption with the increase in exposure to a "medium to high" level of fear of dismissal and to a
continuous level of stress in the previous 12 months.
ARTICLE 5

SOURCES OF STRESS AND THE COPING MECHANISM FOR

MALAYSIAN ENTREPRENEURS
Syed Zamberi Ahmad1* and Farah Akmar Anor Salim

African Journal of Business Management Vol.3 (6), pp.

311-316, July, 2009
Available online at
http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM
ISSN 1993-8233 © 2009 Academic Journals

•The purpose of this paper is to present the findings on the stress factors and the coping mechanism of
the Malaysian entrepreneur’s.
•Data were collected via a questionnaire distributed amongst the entrepreneurs over the Klang Valley,
Malaysia.
•A total of 118 out of 300 entrepreneurs completed questionnaires, which represented all business
sectors with varieties demographic background.
•The results factor analysis with a variamax rotation are conducted on the actual performance to
generate the underlying dimensions of the stress experience by Malaysian entrepreneurs.
•This current study contributes to the body of research by investigating the combined effects of stress
factors and its coping mechanism, using one instrument, in one area setting.
 STRESS AND JOB PERFORMANCE

- Jex, steve.M(1998),”stress and job performance”,

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Ltd. (1998). xiv,
129 pp

• Jex explained about various occupational stress like

workload, interpersonal conflict, and lack of control

• Gender differences, age, personality, and job experience – job

performance
• Jex examines the relationship between major job-related
stressors and a variety of performance indexes.
A CROSS CULTURE INVESTIGATION OF
SOCIAL SUPPORT AND BURNOUT
- Pines, Ayala Malach; Ben-Ari, Adital; Utasi, Agnes; Larson, Dale
European Psychologist.” A cross-cultural investigation of social support and
burnout”Vol 7(4), Dec 2002, 256-264.

• A Survey on cross-culture with four different types of citizens

• Findings
Respondents were asked to rate the importance of six
support functions (random) and to indicate the extent to
which they are available to them in their lives

Social support plays a major role in cross-culture work

place
 MAJOR DEPRESSIVE EPISODES AND
WORKSTRESS
- Emma Robertson Blackmore, PhD, Stephen A. Stansfeld, FRCPsych, PhD,
Iris Weller, PhD, Sarah Munce, MSc, Brandon M. Zagorski, MS, and Donna E.
Stewart, FRCPC,” Major Depressive Episodes and Work Stress:

• National population Survey:

• Findings
– lack of social support at work was significantly associated with
depression in both genders
– High job strain was significantly associated with depression
among men
– Women with low levels of decision authority were more likely to
have depression
• Conclusion :
– Gender differences appear to affect work-stress factors that
increase risk for depression
 AGE ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL
GROUP THERAPY FOR CHRONIC OUTPATIENTS
- Puder, Robin S. Psychology and Aging. Vol 3(2), Jun 1988, 204-
207,” Age analysis of cognitive- behavioral group therapy for chronic pain
outpatients”

• This study explored the effectiveness, in terms of age of

the client, of a 10-week cognitive–behavioral group
therapy (stress inoculation training) for chronic pain
• Stress inoculation training appears to be an effective
method of ameliorating the interference of chronic pain
with the daily activities of life for adults of all ages
 The impact of daily stress on health
and mood: Psychological and social
resources as mediators.
- By DeLongis, Anita; Folkman, Susan; Lazarus, Richard S.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Vol 54(3), Mar 1988,
486-495.

• The somatic and psychological effects of common

everyday hassles were investigated
• These data suggest that persons with low
psychosocial resources are vulnerable to illness and
mood disturbance when their stress levels increase,
even if they generally have little stress in their lives
 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
• Decreased employee turnover ratio
• Change in the life style of BPO employees due
to improper work timings.
• Increased number of youth prone to acute
diseases.
• Mangalore incident
• Improper work life balance
Causes:
•Lack of emotional stability
•Transition of culture
•Impact of purchasing power in
human psychology
•Improper diet and food
 OBJECTIVE
• To identify stressors, moderators and stress
outcomes for corporate.
• To render possible suggestions to prevent
stress at its early stage and make the healthy
employees to enjoy their work life.