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Stress-related matters for the present day
One of the key focuses in HR Professional’s Aug/Sept 2009 edition has been the impact of present-day conditions on the average worker.
If you compare the average hard working employee to the worker-bee for comparison purposes, then these days everyone is feeling the sting! Worker-bees are being stung from both above and below. From above, they feel the demands that their queen bee (whether male or female) places upon them. From below, they feel the uncertainty of present times, and job instability – so anxiousness abounds.
As Antoinette Blunt states in “Under Pressure,” such workers have to deal with “the fear of losing their own job, or the stress of a partner facing unemployment,” and for those with job stability, diminished retirement savings, so “anxiety is bound to accompany employees to work.”
This tangible tension in the workplace can also be the result of retiring-aged employees who were about to leave now deciding to stay and work longer as their retirement honeycombs are impacted causing disappointment for younger employees hoping to move in to potential vacant management positions. Employers are beginning to feel the impact at work and Ms. Blunt warns that “understanding the potentially negative consequences of those issues is something employers need to be aware of….” She recommends that the wise thing for employers to do is to be aware of and become familiar with “the signs and symptoms of stress-related work problems.”
What might these warning signs might be? They include poor performance, stressful or ineffective communication, inabilities to meet deadlines and higher rates of absenteeism. Ms. Blunt also warns that according to Benefits Canada longer-term disability such as mental or nervous disorders tend to increase during an economic downturn. Something else to watch out for, although it has not been a common occurrence in Canada, is workplace violence. Here she recommends being vigilant in regards to stressed employees as it is still a possibility that exists.
Her advice is hopeful and it is for employers to be alert of the potential for problems during the present times during which layoffs, downsizing, bankruptcies and cutbacks exist and for them to realize that solutions realistically may be of a longer term nature.
– Nilesh Shreedhar.
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