The Management of Staff Stresses: Approaches to Understanding and Practics

Abstract

The article is aimed at defining the methods of stress management in the organization and providing recommendations on their application. The information on the degree of influence of professional stress on the workers’ health was considered and analyzed. Specific causes of professional stress and existing methods of impacting it at the level of both personality and organization have been determined. It is substantiated that management of stresses in the organization will provide positive socio-psychological climate and efficiency of activity of the enterprise. Analyzing the influence of factors causing professional stress, the ways of prevention and elimination of stress situations by the manager and the employee himself were considered. As a result of sociological research, the concrete reasons of occurrence of professional stress and ways of its overcoming have been allocated. Recommendations based on foreign experience are provided. At the organization level, methods of stress management can be the following: trainings with psychologist, creation of game rooms, lounge areas, transformation of office into creative space.

Keywords

• stress
• professional stress
• management