Organizational Stress: Marine Kids Korps Inc.

Stress can be defined as anything that makes us change. Many people think of a negative event when they hear the word stress. However, stress can be a positive change also. When a person experiences stress, it not only affects them emotionally, but physically also. If two people are experiencing the same change, they will each respond differently to the stressor. An important figure to Psychology named Richard Lazarus developed the Cognitive Appraisal Model. The Cognitive Appraisal Model states that whether we experience stress from an event or not depends on our interpretation of the situation and the resources we have to approach that event. This means that if a person has many resources to deal with an event, they are less likely to

This change brought by my realizations also helped me at work. I used to be a Shift Manager at a fast-food restaurant, and people know how stressful it can get working at a fast-food restaurant. Before, I used to be motivated, frankly, by money, and I did not take my job too seriously, but ever since my experience, I started to work hard for the money I am earning. If I used to be stressed out during peak hours, which also affect my employees’ performance, I became more positive and motivate my employees to do their job well rather than getting mad at them when they do something wrong. My family and the situation they are in helped me grow as an individual but also as a leader.

Casse, P. (2014b). The new drivers of leadership. Training Journal, p. 29. Retrieved from academicguides.walden.edu/library

Stress can be caused by many different things within an organisation but the main causes of stress can be broken down into “six management standards” Anon (2009) how to tackle work related stress http://www.hse.gov.uk/ I used these areas to construct the chart below and discussed stress at a team meeting and asked my team to complete a Circle of influence around areas over which they felt they had no control Appendix 1 we also discussed what we / I could do to manage the six main causes of stress

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DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO GETTING THE RIGHT THINGS DONE (2006); JAMES M. KOUZES & BARRY Z.

Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership: Theory and practice (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage Publications.

The authors of the book The Leadership Challenge are regarded as the prominent leadership scholars and educators in the U.S.. Kouzes is the Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership of Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Posner is the Dean of the Leavey School of Business and professor of Leadship at Santa Clara University. They have been together produced a lot of award-winning leadership books, among which The Leadership Challenge has won both the James A. Hamilton Hospital Administrations’ Book Award and the Critics’ Choice Award. Kouzes & Posner are also the developers of the Leadship Practices Inventory(LPI), a list of questionnaire for evaluating leadership behavior, which is one of the worldwide frequently used leadership assessment tools. The most distinguished honor that both Kouzes & Posner have received is the Management/Leadship Educators of the Year by the International Management Council. They then joined the team of 50 top leadership educators of the nation. Kouzes & Posner are not only studying and researching leadership, speaking actively at universities, leadership conferences, and seminars, but also conducting programs of leadership development for more than a hundred of national & multi-national companies.

How you could turn something as negative as stress into something positive? According the Amy Gallow “Stress is an inevitable part of work and life, but the effect of stress upon us is far from inevitable, how you manage pressures can distinguish you as a leader and give you a career advantage.” keeping the above in mind, how an individual manages pressure speaks about their character as a leader.

I would like to conclude on a few points that we have discussed. The term stress was coined by Dr. Hans Selye from the University of Montreal and the basic definition of stress is the body’s response to any demand placed on it, pleasant or unpleasant (Cunningham, 2000). Some major causes of stress are “high physical, mental and or emotional demands, lack of variety, short work cycles, fragmented or meaningless work, underutilization and high uncertainty of work” (NOHSC, 2000, P. 29). There are also psychological stressors that affect workplace but that I will save that for another

Hello, my name is Ann-Marie Cameron. Like most of us we attend college and we do not have the luxury of choosing our course, so the reason I am taking this course is because my advisor said it was a requirement for my degree program.

Conger, Jay A. (1990). The Dark Side of Leadership, Elsiever Science Publishing Company Inc., New York, USA.

Being a manager or leader entails having to make decisions and the industry or job setting that a manager has generally dictates the volume of decision making that will take place during a normal business day. Examples of these decisions might include but are not limited to goals and objectives, hiring, terminating, promoting, budgeting, training, organizational design and performance standards. The decisions that are made by managers and leaders can carry influence throughout every level of the organization and can have both positive and negative consequences for all of those involved. Bosses, peers, and subordinates are influenced alike when decisions are made. Depending on the model used, stress can play an integral part in the

Stress is not only affecting individuals, but also affects how are businesses function and how our society operates (Morrison 1).

For decade’s individuals, companies, and organizations have spent an unprecedented amount of money on researching, molding, modeling and working to define what a leader is and what characteristics make successful leaders. Despite all the research, there is not a quick answer or even full agreement as to what makes an individual an effective leader. The definition of a leader is “someone who can influence others and who has managerial authority.” (Robbins, Decenzo, Coulter, 2015. P.370)