HR Strategies for Managing Stress in the Workplace

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HR Strategies for Managing Stress in the
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• INTRODUCTION

Employees are the strength of any firm. Their
performance is what determines the overall output
of a company. So it is essential to keep the
employees fresh and active all the time. This is
not an easy task, in the fast-moving phase of the
present day companies, with an extensive level of
competition and ideas. Here, the stress
generally starts to hit employees sooner. This
will not only affect the lower strata of the
employee chain but bus also the top authorities.
Starting from the manager to the newbies among
the firm, stress will hit everyone without
sparing a single person at some moments of work
life. Stress comes as a complicated term when
we take the case of a working firm. Stress hits
various individuals in various ways. In a
workplace, some will be very good in diverting
the stress factor and turning them to a
productive work. On the other hand, some will
lose their good pace when stress hit them. There
are also some other group of people who are not
at all fit to perform tasks and when they are
assigned or exposed to something out of their
comfort zone. They eventually go into stress
mode. In a firm it is the duty of the HR to
intelligently plan some strategies for
maintaining the stress at the workplace, it is
his/her duty to make ensure that employees are
doing the assigned jobs fit and fine without the
scope for errors due to stress.
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In this blog, we will go through some HR
strategies for managing stress in the
workplace. Well-arranged work This is very
effective when it comes to stress management, the
HR can give a proper schedule for the work which
is going to be conducted by each employee. For
this, the HR can study about the strong and weak
points of each and every employee, in this way
when a particular work or project arise the HR
will have a clear idea about to whom this shall
be assigned. Also, the companies which work on
shifts can also make use of the HR strategies for
stress management. Some persons will be active at
night and will have no problems whatsoever to
work at night while for someone this will be just
the opposite. So to sort this behavior patterns
and to arrange shifts accordingly can reduce a
considerable amount of stress from employees.
Thus managing stress is done.
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Taking extreme care of issues There will be many
situations where employees are subjected to have
issues with the company. The HR should take
special care about these kinds of issues at the
starting stage itself to avoid stress hitting
both the firm and the employees as well. The
strategies for maintaining stress, in this case,
including trying to know about the issue, find a
solution for it, execute it etc. If goes
unnoticed this can be deadly since the cold war
between the employee and firm will finally end in
the termination of the employee and huge loss for
the firm. So HR strategies should be used in this
case. Smart time management for employees In
almost all the firms there will be a time bound
for employees to finish their work. One of the
major contributors to the stress at the workplace
is this. If at all, the employees feel that they
cannot finish their work within the given time
interval they will go panic. This is not going to
benefit the firm or the employee. So for managing
stress, the HR should provide smart time bounds.
This doesnt mean he should provide the employee
a huge time gap to finish his job, but according
to the skill level of the employee, the time gap
shall be set smartly.
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Workload management Heavy workloads are another
case of building up of stress in employees. What
is Strategic Human Resource Management?. The HR
should always track the working status of the
employees and find out how comfortable is he with
his work. If an employee is not taking leave for
a long time or doing overtime continuously, it
will be because of the workload he will be
suffering. So the HR should address such issues
and discuss with the employee and find out what
is going on and use strategies for managing
stress. Feel free atmosphere development There
should always be space for an employee to discuss
his problem with the HR. He should not have any
intimidating feeling to talk about his issue. If
he cant discuss his issue with anyone means
stress is surely going to hit him. So the HR
should plan strategies so as to maintain stress
in the workplace in such a way that the employees
should feel free to address their issues.
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Empathy approach There will be a lot of cases
where an employee tends to work poorly. This may
not be only because of the lazy nature and
reasons for such. So being aggressive is not the
final solution to solve this matter. The
underperformance may be due to a lot of reasons
like family problems, diseases etc. So the HR
should find the root cause of the issue for
managing the stress of the employee in the
empathy showing way. Fun time activities This is
a good strategy for managing stress in the
workplace. The HR can arrange small fun time
activities and games which can give some
relaxation to the employees from work life and
refresh their minds. It is essential to have a
stress free workplace to churn out the maximum
potential from the employees for the proper
functioning of a firm. For making these possible
HR strategies for managing stress can be used.
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