Managing Stress in the Competitive Era

AUTHOR
Rajni Singh *

KEYWORDS
Stress management, Stressors, Workplace stress, Stress coping mechanism, Job stress, Professionals,

ABSTRACT
All the employees do not experience stress to the same degree. Some people who overreact to stimuli gets affected both physically and behaviorally, which eventually affects their performance. Current paper makes an effort to clearly explain the characteristics of professional stress. Those who take incredible amounts of stress, gets affected both physiologically and psychologically. This has a negative effect on the performance of the employees. As stress poses negative effects on the employee’s mental and physical state so stress coping mechanisms must be carefully adopted both by the organizations as well as by the individual employees. This article combines a theoretical framework on the origins of workplace stress with information on the effects of job stress on professionals. Current study had highlighted three major areas of stress- the stressors faced by the professionals, the effect of stress on the well-being and health of professionals and the stress coping strategies. This paper provides information about various stress coping techniques which can be used by the practitioners to overcome the stress from the workplace and to secure the well-being of the employees.