Question

Identify possible challenge stressors and the hindrance stressors that could be affecting your team members. Is it possible for the same stressor to be a challenge stressor to one person and a hindrance stressor to another? Explain your answer, please.

Answer 1

The stressors like overtime, lack of Air-conditioned offices, job insecurity, conflicts with seniors, lack of incentives, etc. could be few of the factors causing stress in a workplace, thereby affecting my team members. However, yes, in certain cases, it could be possible that the same stressors are not challenging to the other working in the same organization. For example, one employee may be family-oriented person. She believes in rendering a quality time to her family back at home as well. For her, the overtime becomes a stressor, even if overtime allowances are additionally given to her. She feels, her family time is being compromised if she has to serve at the workplace for additional hours. The same factor becomes a boon to the employee who is on heavy debt and these additional overtime allowances can help him considerably deal with the dues. Another stressor could be lack of air-conditioned offices. While to most of the employees, lack of air-conditioned offices may make them feel uncomfortable to concentrate at work, an employee who is suffering from strong asthmatic problems and the exterior pollutants can make its way through the air-conditioners into the workplace, thereby resulting in aggravation of the conditions. Hence to such employees, lack of air-conditioned offices is rather blessing in disguise. Conflicts could happen between the employees and their bosses but the same bosses could be in good rapport with some other employees, often even being biased to such employees. Therefore, stressors may be often subjective in nature.