Question

Potential Stressors

Think of potential stressors that employees face at your organization or one with which you are familiar. Discuss their effect on employee performance, and how they might be reduced or eliminated.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Potential stressors at workplace and their effect on employees:

High workloads:

When at workplace the workload give to the employee is too much and exceed the capacity of him, it brings unnecessary stress to the employee. High amount of workload create more pressure on employee since they cannot handle it and eventually collapse from that pressure that bring stress to them.

Harassment/bullying:

When employee have to face harassment at workplace, it bring lots of pressure to them and lead to lower working quality. When there are bullies at workplace chances are high that people get harassed by those bullies and constant bullying create extra tension over employee which welcome the stress to them.

Improper Management:

When employee are on their own, and management don’t give them any direction employee tend to be lost in their transit and could not think further how to act, in this situation most probably they go stressed out where to go and what to do further.

Remedies:

• Employer need to make sure that the workload is distributed equally among the employee and nobody is give any extra burden which can bring extra unnecessary stress to them. Give them proper day off and holidays so that they enjoy the work and come on work with fresh mood.
• Employer should have create such policies that reduce bullying and harassment at workplace, make such rule that bring disciplinary action to person who has committed such problem to others.
• Management should ensure that they run the system very effectively and commit toward their work and management that employee being confident and given proper direction what to do and whom to follow. They should be given proper guidelines which they follow effectively.