The Impact of Mental Illnesses and Health Problems from Work-Related Stress on Employees in Office Jobs

At the psychological level, stressful and poor working conditions can cause continuing feelings of humiliation, insecurity and worthlessness. Not having a secure understanding of the future can cause large amounts of anxiety and futility that roots high levels of fatigue from day-to-day life, therefore making everyday coping difficult. Individuals who experience high levels of prolonged stress often attempt to relieve these pressures by adopting unhealthy coping behaviours; for example, the excessive use of alcohol, smoking, and

Work related stress develops because a person is unable to cope with the demands being placed on them. Stress, including work related stress, can be a significant cause of illness and is known to be linked with high levels of sickness absence, staff turnover and other issues such as more errors.

Work plays an important part in the lives of many human beings and it affects their everyday well-being. Working is a huge challenge for a majority of the American people. The workplace is a big contributing factor of job stress. Psychological ill health is related to the problem of job stress. There are interventions that can be implemented to prevent or at least to reduce psychological problems.

Mental health matters, and whether employers know it or not, the psychological wellness of employees affects

Stress has been linked to hypertension, heart attacks, diabetes, asthma, chronic pain, allegeries, headaches, skin disorders, cancer, immune system weakness and decrease blood count (Cummings et al, 2005). It has also been linked to an increase risk of alcoholism and drug use. High levels of stress can lead to higher absenteeism, larger staff turnover and low productivity. The symptoms are evident in the quantitative data, with an

There are numerous challenges that organizations are faced with in order for them to survive and grow. These challenges are mainly faced by people who are tasked with making decisions on a daily basis within the organizations because a majority of the challenges are human based. The employees working in an organization are likely to suffer from occupational stress depending on their work. Occupational stress comes along when an employee is faced with demands within the workplace, and they are not able to complete or carry out these demands. The failure to complete the demands placed upon them would cause the employee mental and physical strain as their body would have a physiological reaction. According to research there are various factors that contribute to stress in the workplace. These factors include isolation, extensive working hours, negative workloads, unhealthy working environments, harassment, bullying by management, and lack of motivation or advancement opportunities. The factors mentioned are not exhaustive as there might be other causes to occupational stress depending on the individual or employees.

Stress has now become an important phenomenon in health related problems. Employees suffer a lot of stress in organization related to their job. Employees have task relate stress, environment related stress. Organization satisfies and motivates employees to do their work. But through job satisfaction and motivation employee stress is not reduced. Instead stress is something else. Employee experience a high level of stress. Stress can’t be reduced when employees do not have proper information about doing work in organization.

Work related stress has been emerging as one of the main causes of adverse symptoms of mental health in today’s industrial societies. The direct result of excessive pressures and/or demands placed on individuals at work, work-related stress has caused some people to develop symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other adverse mental health effects. While it might be possible that other co-factors contribute to the development of anxiety and depression in some population groups, evidence suggests that pressure from works is more likely to trigger adverse reactions in some people. In fact, positive correlations have been established between symptoms of work stress and mental health problems. That is, it is not uncommon to witness loss of

Work is one of the major important elements of people's lives. There is a sense of satisfaction in finding meaning and creating an identity of yourself. But at the same time, there are stressors, such as the exposure of physical and chemical risks in the workplace. At least 5% of workers have mood disorders (Jong-Min, W., & Teodor T., P, 2008). Negative stress reactions occur if it is too much for the workers to cope.

METHODS: a cross-sectional study was conducted from January to July 2014, Participants completed demographic, occupational and lifestyle questionnaire, and a self-reported work-related stress symptoms instrument.

What are long time effects of work-related stress and how does it affects officers’ job performances?

In Australia, nearly half (45%) of people will suffer with a mental disorder at some stage in their life (SANE Australia, 2014, para 11). Previously, it was presumed that mental illnesses develop outside the workplace; however this has been debunked, as an unhealthy work environment can lead to stress, or aggravate a pre-existing mental illness (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2010). Therefore, Royal Comfort Hotel’s must examine if the current workplace environment is happy and healthy, as an average of 3.2 days per worker is lost each year due to workplace stress (Medibank Private, 2008).

A vital element of a healthy balanced lifestyle, psychological well-being is an increasingly significant subject in the workplace (Cattan & Tilford 2006). As defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO), health is "A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease" (WHO, 2016). In other words, this describes health holistically, not merely as the absence of illness, but in fact as complementary and linked with mental well-being. Workplace health promotion (WHP) and psychosocial risk management are the two central methods which combine workplace mental health promotion (WMHP) as well as mental ill health prevention (Sivris & Leka, 2015) and focus on improving employees’ wellbeing, security and health. As Sivris & Leka state, the WHO healthy workplaces model (HWM) was developed in line with this, with having a focus on the importance of effective WMHP and the importance of addressing

Stress is a common issue that faces every human being in different times. Stress can be caused by many factors, but one of the main reasons is work which is called occupational stress or work-related stress. Job stress does not only affect the employees’ performance within an organization, but also it affects their general health. Stress has become a challenge for employers now because high level stress results in low productivity, increased absenteeism and other problems like alcoholism, drug abuse and hypertension (Ahmad, Mohamed. 2017). It became a major problem for employers especially in developing countries where they don’t realize the importance of work-life balance and the impact of stress on the productivity level and the job

A nonfiction paper that influenced me the most is the article written by Norito Kawakami and Takashi Haratani titled “Epidemiology of Job Stress and Health in Japan: Review of Current Evidence and Future Direction”. Since I was a young adult, I have always heard and known about the “karoshi” epidemic in Japan, however, this topic has never caught my attention until my ex-manager pulled me aside one day and had a conversation about of how worried and concerned he was of my health due to my work commitments. This conversation happened during the peak of my career growth, my manager saw potentials in me, and I was extremely interested, satisfied, and motivated with my roles and responsibilities. I was his best team player until he realized that I was working during the day with my coworkers and my teammate in the United States; while managing a team of software developers in India during off hours, I was on the fast track to implement a proprietary software for the Federal Sunshine Act regulation at the time.