Define the term 'stress'. What are the causes/sources of stress and the strategies to overcome organisational stress?
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Explanation:
Stress involves interaction of the person and environment.The physical or psychological demands from the environment that cause stress are called stressors.
They create stress or the potential for stress when an individual perceives them as representing a demand that may exceed that person's ability to respond.
Explanation:
Stress: Causes, Effects and Solutions
In a layman’s words stress pressure or worry caused by the
problems of life. All living human beings feel stress. Some learn how to cope
with it while others fail to do so. If not handled and tackled timely, it
becomes a serious disease and the source of many other ailments. Let’s first
understand what stress actually is.
Stress is our body's way of responding to any kind of demand,
threat, or change. In certain cases stress enables us to tackle the challenge
on hand. For example in threat conditions, our bodies react by releasing
chemicals into the blood. These chemicals give us more energy and strength,
which can be a good thing. However there is a bad stress also. The bad stress
our groundless anxiety in response to some emotional issue that in reality is
not so threatening but we assume it to be threatening. This type of stress is ‘negative stress.’
Causes of Stress
Many different things can cause stress. For instance, threat
to our life in an emergency, accident, fight, danger, worrying about your
health, family or job, pollution, excessive noise, crowd, fatigue, overwork, problematic
relationship, etc, can cause stress.
Effects
Stress can cause serious physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral
complications. Headache, insomnia, indigestion, poor concentration, frequent
negative thoughts, anxiety, depression, relationship troubles, driving
recklessly, drug or alcohol abuse, aggression are a few of them.
Solutions
Stress can be tackled successfully with positive
attitude. Deep breathing, self-help books, mediation, etc, are some of the
methods to monitor and subdue stress.