Handling Job Related Stress

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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SCHOOL OF ARTS. COURSE UNIT: STRESS MANAGEMENT COURSE CODE: CPY 311 CLASS ASSIGNMENT PRESENTED BY: NZARO MOSES KATANA (C01M3/35121/2010) SUPERVISOR: JEAN N. WACHIRA April 2013 Question: Write a paper on Job related stress and show how an Organization can handle that. INTRODUCTION Stress is a fact of everyday life. When people reach out for help, they are often dealing with circumstances, situations, and stressors in their lives that leave them feeling emotionally and physically overwhelmed. Many people feel that they have very little resources or skills to deal with the high levels of stress they are experiencing. Stress has been categorized as an antecedent or stimulus, as a consequence or response, and as an interaction. It has been studied from many different frameworks or perspectives. For example, some scholars have proposed a physiological assessment that supports considering the association between stress and illness. Conversely, others have advocated a psychological view in which stress is “a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being.” (Lazarus R.S, Folkman S.) Stress is not inherently deleterious, however. Each individual’s cognitive appraisal, their perceptions and interpretations, gives meaning to events and determines whether events are viewed as threatening or positive. Personality traits also influence the stress equation because what may be overtaxing to one person may be exhilarating to another. Sources of stress We can experience stress from four basic sources. One of these sources can be the environment. Environment can bombard you with
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