Dr. Shankar P. Rajbhandari shankar.rajbhandari@gmail .com

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Dr. Shankar P.
Rajbhandarishankar.rajbhandari_at_gmail .com
Stress Management
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Defining Stress

• Stress is defined as an organism's total response
  to an environmental condition or stimulus.
• Stress typically describes a negative condition
  that can have an impact on an organism's mental
  and physical well-being.

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Stress Management

• Stress management refers to reduce negative
  stress and to provide positive feelings of being
  in control of one's life and promote general
  well-being.

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Stress in Organization

• People in organization become under stress due to
  various reasons.
• Different people experience and handle
  work-related stress differently.
• Some people are more distressed out by a
  particular situation than others..

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• What is more stressful for one person may not be
  stressful for others.
• Stress varies from person to person depending
  upon personality, perception, and response

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Techniques to Cope with Stress

• Relaxation
• Deep breathing
• Conflict resolution
• Time management
• Social activity
• Exercise
• Meditation
• Natural medicine
• Planning and decision-making
• Listening relaxing music
• prayer

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Causes of Work-Related Stress

• Work culture and practices
• Poor relationship with superior, subordinates,
  and peers
• Poor work life balance
• Organizational structure
• Managerial confusions
• Tight dead-lines
  
• Resource constraints
• Systemic defects
  

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Impacts of Work-related Stress

• Physical hazards
• Wanting to cry unnecessarily
• Feeling of inability to cope
• Short temperedness at work and home
• Loss of appetite
• Inability to plan, concentrate, and control work
• Loss of motivation
• Commitment

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2. Physical and Emotional Health Hazard

• Muscular tension
• Backache and neck ache
• Cold and other infections
• Difficulty to sleep
• Digestive problem
• Increased sweating
• Skin rashes
• Blurred vision
• Raised heart rate

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As work pressure is impossible to avoid
completely, it is important to learn to manage
and keep stress at a comfortable level.
How?...
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Techniques for Managing Stress

• Control time allocation and goals causes stress
  more schedules what one can handle.
• Learning to Say No if one is overloaded.
• Prioritize and Complete all time-bound
  commitments.
• Meeting Management fix agenda and time.
• Time Management basis of TM is the ability to
  control events.
• Make Time Decision Based on Analysis.
• Attain Balance Between Work and Life.

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Major Issues About Control

1. Some things are uncontrollable. Trying to control
   the uncontrollable is a key cause of stress and
   unhappiness.
2. Feeling not in control is the enemy of time
   management.
3. Feeling not in control is one of the major
   causes of stress in our daily lives too.

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Techniques of Analyzing Time Decisions

• Look at how you currently divide your time.
• Do you get unimportant things completed first as
  they are easy?
• Do you focus your efforts on the things that will
  really make a difference for you and your
  organization?

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Activities/Events vs. Priority Setting

• Not urgent and not important
• Urgent but not important
• Not urgent but important
• Urgent and important

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Causes of Delay Actions

• You do not know how to do the task.
• You do not like to do the task.
• You feel indecisive about how to approach the
  task.

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Techniques of Overcoming Delay Actions

• Breaking the large project into as many small,
  manageable, instant tasks as possible.
• Make a written list of every task.
• List the small tasks on your daily, prioritized
  to do list.
• Reward yourself upon completion.

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Managing Stress in Workplace

• Fight-or-Flight Approach

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