Focus
- 13.1: Assessments
- 13.2: Staff engagement and retention
- 13.3: Health and wellbeing
- 13.4: Nutrition
- 13.5: Stress management and prevention
- 13.6: Resilience training and assessment
- 13.14: Creating a positive work culture
Challenges
- 20.1: Performance management
- 20.2: Negativity, conflict and stress
- 20.3: Sickness absence in the workplace
- 20.4: Staff turnover
- 20.5: Workplace bullying
- 20.6: Mergers and acquisitions
- 20.7: Recruitment and retention
- 20.8: Downsizing and redundancy
Solutions
- 21.4: Expert advice
- 21.5: Cultural change management
- 21.6: Leadership and manager behaviour
- 21.7: Team building
- 21.8: Training and development
- 21.9: Coaching and mentoring
- 21.10: Assessments and surveys
- 21.11: Therapy and motivation
- 21.12: Research and analysis
- 21.13: Executives retreat
- 21.14: Conflict resolution service
- 21.15: The Stress Advisory Service
- 21.16: Code for health and wellbeing
Downloads
The prevention and control of stress at work
Download Dr Derek Mowbray's latest article on Stress Prevention in the Workplace - a big problem in search of a big solution
The prevention of stress from occurring in the first place is a goal that every organisation should aspire to.
Stress is at the wrong end of a spectrum that involves pressure – strain – stress.
- Pressure is normally a stimulant that is useful in providing the energy required to meet challenges in everyday life
- Strain is the state we reach when pressure continues beyond our control, and when we cannot see an end.
- Stress is the condition we reach when strain does not stop and continues without any personal control of when it will cease.
The prevention and control of stress is important to organisations because stress impairs performance. Anyone with stress will no longer be able to focus on their work, will be under-productive and, possibly, counter -productive. Those with stress sometimes go off work and sometimes leave their jobs. The costs of this can be very high to organisations, and interferes with productivity and performance.
People who are stressed and remain at work are unlikely to contribute effectively to the performance of the organisation, and will lose substantial resources in terms of money, reputation, market share, responsiveness to market changes, and attraction as an employer. There are also insurance and legal implications of not preventing or treating stress.
A stress free organisation is one that is most likely to achieve great success with profits, quality service, increasing market share, attraction of the best employees, free publicity and reputation.
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Professor Derek Mowbray's
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20th January 2010
HSJ World Class Workforce
Cavendish Centre, London
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an outcome of a
Positive Work Culture