Stressors Related to My Professional Life In my work place setting, I work for a agency who works with families with children that are autistic or have behavioral problems. Moreover, with my job being an agency there are significant amount of flaws within this organization. Agencies in general seem to have many flaws. Furthermore, I experience a few stressors that effect me daily. One stressor that I experience is having to go to weekly supervision every Friday without pay. This is a stressor for me because my job location is not as close to my house, granted about 25 minutes from my home. So, the stress for me is driving all the way to my job location just to speak on actions of my client that are consistent each week. Other jobs that I have applied to previously compensate their workers for supervision weekly or give the option to have phone conferences about our clients. Secondly, this particular job I am considered a independent contractor. Independent contractor means there is no taxes taken out of each check I receive each week. This is a stressor because although I may save money with each check by the end of the year it seems I owe so much. This is stressful because even though I am always mindful of my money, it still is not enough. Also, I have to do paperwork on my own time …show more content…
This is stressful because I had to learn to transition from being single doing specific things for myself to being in a relationship. For years, I only needed to worry about myself and now I have to be considerate of another. This is a stressor because every relationship has its up and downs. Being as though I have not been in a relationship for so long, adjusting is becoming mentally exhausting. Thirdly, my sister is getting married in the summer and I am the maid of honor. This is a stressor because the maid of honor has so many responsibilities. Furthermore, having to deal with a bride in itself is
Introduction Stress affects millions of people. One of the most common forms of stress is that related to our careers and the workplace. In today 's economic difficulty, work related stress is even more pronounced than ever before. Everyone who has ever held a job has, felt the pressure of work-related stress. Any job can have stressful elements, even if you love what you do. According to the American Psychological Association 's (APA) annual Stress in America Survey. Only 37 percent of Americans surveyed said they were doing
10.) There a many types of stressors that one may encounter, but among most people I believe the most common is sociological stress. Sociological stress can be one of the hardest to deal with because it is stimulated from a relationship with another person. This can cause someone to feel extremely overwhelmed and tensed because they do not know how to deal with the situation at hand. I know personally I have a hard time dealing with sociological stressors, especially when it has to do with a person close to me that I care about. I believe most people feel like they are constantly under social stress, which can cause one to feel anxiety, depression or anger throughout the day. Because we live in such a fast paced environment, many can feel sociological stressors. It can
ANSWER- A time I faced a problem with stress was when I was working my pro shop assistant job at Chisago Lakes Golf Course. I was eighteen years old and helping my boss run a big tournament, getting stuff ready for the tournament the day before. The morning of the tournament he hurt his back. He came into work and could not function as well as he needed to run the tournament. I was his right-hand man that summer helping with every day things, so he put me in charge of the tournament and running the staff to help with the tournament. So, I came into work thinking it was just another day I was going to help
Plan improvements to the identification and approach to dealing with workplace stress and conflict in own area of responsibility
In defining the concept of stress, occupational stress and role stress are examined based on the fact that people's lives are characterized with stressors that contribute to numerous threats to their well-being. Since the concept of role stress, which is related to occupational stress, is not found in the dictionary, the starting point in the definition and analysis of stress is the use of the term stress (Riahi, 2011, p.722). While stress was initially described as the experience of some form of strain by any living organisms, the description has been expanded to a phenomenon that contributes to severe and distressing experience,
In the workplace, stress can have some strong physical and mental effects on employees. To best understand stress, it is first important to define it. Stress is defined as “a feeling of tension that occurs when a person perceives that a given situation is about to exceed one’s ability to cope and consequently could endanger one’s well being” (Hitt, Miller & Colella, 2011). Stress on the job is usually the result of people feeling inadequate and unable to perform the given duties of a position at a high level. This could be the result of not having the tools necessary to complete the work or having an outside need that is unable to be met while performing duties. Today, we’ll examine different types of stress and the effects that
“Commonly cited causes of work stress include low salaries (46 percent), lack of opportunities for growth or advancement (41 percent), too heavy a workload (41 percent), long hours (37 percent) and unclear job expectations (35 percent),” (APA, March 8, 2012). These job stressed transmit into lives lived outside of work too. When managers are taking all of these stresses home it can be impossible to actually de-stress from work while away. When I surveyed the managers 100% reported that they feel stressed outside of work. 75% rated this question a 5, they are stressed to the highest degree. Although stress outside of work can relate to many non-work problems. The next question asked to survey “I handle stress well.” the ratings were not ones to match with having stress outside of work also.
According to Hayes & Weathington (2007) people who work in the service industries are constantly confronted with stressful work circumstances. As Hayes & Weathington (2007) mention managers of restaurants tend to deal with stress daily. This is true because they deal with multipronged unforeseen issues on any given day. Those issues can range from issues such as displeased customers to maintaining the standard of the restaurant (Hayes & Weathington, 2007). Dealing with stressful issues on daily occurrences can be deteriorating mentally and physically over time, resulting in many unpleasant reactions (Hayes & Weathington, 2007).
What is it that makes something stressful for you or not? Is there some variable that makes all the difference?
I have plenty of sources of stress in my life, but to narrow it down to just a few, I would have to say, my responsibility in my position at work as well as being a mother. Trying to balance both of the two can sometimes be difficult. I have a required amount of hours I have to work each week which does take away time from being a mother. I spend a lot of my time at work and not being at home as much as I would like, stresses me out. Some techniques I do use are visualization, and knowing I am not alone. Visualizing the outcome of the work I am putting in. Knowing the outcome is something that is beneficial to both he and I. I am able to provide for my family. This goes along with knowing I am not alone. I know I have people around who support
What work situations have been the most stressful for you? Why? What would you change about the situation?
Things that stress me are difficult assignments that I have little time to do, not getting enough sleep, as well as having to rush to get somewhere or do something. What makes a difficult assignment stressful to me is the fact that I do not understand the work as well as I want to. Not getting enough sleep puts a lot of stress on my body because that immediately starts my day off badly. By not getting enough sleep it leaves you lethargic for the rest of the day and can cause you to lose focus on what you're supposed to do at that time. Rushing to get something done is another stress causing because you have no time to sit back and relax. It can also cause me to get irritated and upset, making you regret not preparing for whatever should have got taken care of in advance. When rushing to
Three out of every four American workers describe their work as stressful. According to the Holmes-Rahe Life Events Scale, which rates levels of stress, many of the most stressful events in life are related to the workplace. Some examples are firings, business readjustments and changes in financial status, altered responsibilities, a switch to a different line of work, trouble with the boss, changes in work hours or conditions, retirement and vacations. Workplace stress costs American employers an estimated $200 billion per year in lower productivity, absenteeism, staff turnover, workers ' compensation, medical insurance and other stress-related expenses. However, stress may not always be a bad thing. It can stimulate creativity and
My major stressor were in the time when my parents got divorced. My parents divorced when I was only seven years old. This had a major effect on my mother and me, not only because we lost everything but the fact
According to Elkin and Rosch (1990) workplace related stress in a major problem in the U.S. and it creates a major expense for corporations. Koeske, Kirk, and Koeske (1993) indicate that all jobs have some level of stress but jobs that are in the human services have additional stressors because they “derive from intense involvement in the lives of others”. (p.319). They also refer to the type of stress experienced by individuals working in human services as “burnout” (Koeske, Kirk, and Koeske, 1993, p.319). Another factor that can influence our stress level is how we handle life’s demands. There are different ways of reacting to the situations we face every day of our lives. We have all heard of expressions such as ‘road rage’ and ‘going postal’. These are terms that we have come to identified with violent reactions to stressors caused by situations all of us face every day. How many of us have experiences in the road that