Stressed at Work – The Cause

Employees and managers alike are usually given deadlines that are totally unrealistic in order to meet near-impossible goals.

Competitive, fast-paced business can be both fun and invigorating. However, when intermediate goals such as optimizing work flow, improving sales or enhancing communication do not serve valid business ends, resentment is often the end product.

You can also add to the mix the uncooperative worker or the demanding and unreasonable boss.

In both large and small companies, you will find disrespectful and poorly qualified leaders. They are too interested in kissing up to their manager rather than improving productivity and getting the job done.

The reason for this stress is that people feel that they experience a loss of control over their lives.

There are a lot of people who have well-developed problem solving skills:

    - Women who juggle career along with being mothers know how to manage their time. They are able to multi-task demands and come up with innovative solutions.

These skills are practiced every day while at home. The working mother is also more keenly aware as to how to go about settling disputes among individuals.

Some people may be partly right and partly wrong.

    - Men, also, have a great deal of expertise in responding to complaints, prioritizing resource expenditures and deciding when it is time to push and when compromise must come into play.

These skills are likewise practiced at home each day.

The workplace fails to mirror a person's freedom to use their cognitive skills and the power to come to a workable solution which results in stress in the workplace.

Goals come from the hierarchy and there is little debate allowed. People who are employed in workplaces such as these experience obligations without authority and this is guaranteed work related stress.

One of the most cited reasons for having stress in the workplace comes down to this - demands are made but there are no resources with which to meet them.

When a person is placed in a conflict that cannot be resolved, the inevitable result is stress.

Some businesses are starting to recognize this, and are making an effort to change. With any luck, you may be fortunate enough to be employed by one of these.