Introduction to Stress Management-

Questions: 1.What is the topic of the Research? 2.What are the findings from your Research? 3.What are your Recommendations? Answers: 1.The topic of the following research is stress management. Stress management refers to the various psychotherapies and techniques that attempt to control the levels of stress that are experienced by a certain person due to the purpose of the improvement of the daily functioning of the concerned person. The stress in this context generally refers to the chronic stress of the concerned person. The stress generally refers to the distress, or a type of stress that has negative consequences of a significant amount. 2.According to Babatunde, (2013), job stress, also known as occupational stress cannot be defined in a unified manner due to the fact that one single definite approach may not be able to encompass the phenomenon in all its totality. Babatunde further argues that there has been a number of definitions over the years that describe stress to be either a stimulus, or as a response to some stimulus. Stress may also have been defined as the combination of the stimulus and the response to the concerned stimulus. The transactional relationship that exists between the concerned individuals and the surrounding environment of the individual may also be defined as stress. Stress when defined as a stimulus may comprise of the characteristics of the surrounding environment that may be disturbing for the individual who is exposed to the concerned factors of the surroundings. The responsive definition of stress refers to the stress that has its roots in the psychological reaction of the concerned pe rson towards the stressors that have been playing their part in the creation of the stress. McVicar et al (2013) argues that there are a number of literatures based on the stress reveal the challenges that are faced by the people due to the stress that they face at their workplaces. The major issues resulting in the formation of the stress of an employee are the workload of the concerned person, the lack of meaningfulness of the work assigned, the excessively fast pace of work, the lowering of the autonomy at work, the toxic systems of work and the other disturbances that arise at the place of work. The most common reason of the stress among the people at their respective workplaces result from the conflicts resulting from the ambiguity of the roles that are assigned to the concerned person. According to Ackfeldt and Malhotra, (2013), role conflict, one of the major reasons for the role stress occurs when there is incompatibility and incongruency among the demands of the job and the expectations of the employer from the employees of the concern. 3.There may be various number of ways to manage the stress that occurs at the workplaces. The concerned employees should be allowed to take breaks from the task at hand. A short break of sometime may help the employee to apply new perspectives to their job at hand. The employees may be encouraged to engage themselves in some workouts that may prove to be beneficial for both the mental and the physical health of the concerned employee. The environment of the work place must promote a joyful experience for the employees. This is turn helps the employees to de-stress from their daily work routine. In order to relieve the stress, an employee may also consult the stress issue with his colleagues or seniors in order to receive a solution to the stress that he is facing. Meditation may also prove to be one of the stress relievers in case of organizational stress. References Ackfeldt, A. L., Malhotra, N. (2013). Revisiting the role stress-commitment relationship: can managerial interventions help?.European journal of marketing,47(3/4), 353-374. Babatunde, A. (2013). Occupational Stress: A Review on Conceptualisations, Causes and Cure.Economic Insights-Trends Challenges,65(3). McVicar, A., Munn-Giddings, C., Seebohm, P. (2013). Workplace stress interventions using participatory action research designs.International Journal of Workplace Health Management,6(1), 18-37.