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Stress Part Three - Moving on to Wellbeing

4 important questions on Stress Part Three - Moving on to Wellbeing

What can organisations do?
3 (Three) Tier Interventions

Primary interventions – change the source of stress (e.g. redesigning jobs)

Secondary – help people modify their responses (e.g.reducing stress symptoms)

Tertiary – treating the health problems (e.g. providing counselling to employees)

HSE Risk Factors that can lead to work-related stress if they are not managed properly

Demands

Workload, work patterns, and the work environment

Control

How much say the person has in the way they do their work

Support

Encouragement, sponsorship and resources provided by the organisation, line management and colleagues

Relationships

Promoting positive working to avoid conflict and dealing with unacceptable behaviour

Role

Whether people understand their role within the organisation and whether the organisation ensures that they do not have conflicting roles

Change

How organisational change (large or small) is managed and communicated in the organisation.

Psychological relaxation/meditation

Three cognitive processes:

Focusing is the ability to identify, differentiate, maintain attention to stimuli for an extended period of time.
Passivity is the ability to stop unnecessary goal-directed and analytic activity.
Receptivity is the ability to tolerate and accept experiences that may be uncertain.

In the progress the outcome is a calm mind and a relaxed body functioning (van der Hek & Plomp, 1997.