VHS English Version Product Number: 2015AEVHS
DVD English Version Product Number: 2015AEDVD
List Price: $69.95
Length of Video(in Minutes): 19
Publisher: Digital-2000, Inc.
Description: This program is designed to explain stress on the job, how to control and manage it. Recognition of stress symptoms, how it interferes with productivity, and how it can become a serious liability if not properly managed are covered.
Excerpt: Hello, my name is Dr. Edward Sheldon, and I’d like to help
you, the manager and supervisor, learn how to deal effectively with stress on
the job. Both the stress that you experience as well as the stress and the
potential hazards of stress that can affect your workers. Stress has become a
very big problem in industry, and one of the reasons why stress is such a
problem is because most people are unaware that they are experiencing stress
until it becomes a problem. Let me help you understand what I mean by that.
Take a moment and just notice how you’re breathing. See if you’re breathing in
a little bit, or breathing deeply. Chances are you’ll find that you and all the
people around you are hardly breathing at all, and this is a cause in itself of
stress because the body needs plenty of oxygen to function properly, but most
people don’t know that they need to breath properly. Let me show you another
example, with your eyes open, or with your eyes closed. Scan your body and
notice how you’re muscles are, whether your muscles are tensed, or whether they’re
relaxed. If your arms or legs are crossed then hardly you have muscles that are
being stressed unnecessarily.
Very often people carry stress in their stomachs,
or in their backs. They shoulder responsibility in find that they have tense
shoulders, or they find that someone is a pain in the neck, and they hold
tension in their neck. It’s interesting if you listen to peoples’ words where
they carry their stress. The problem is as people are usually unaware of
holding on to this stress, until they go home, or it’s the end of the day, and
they have a back ache, or a pain in the shoulder. It’s the supervisory manager’s
responsibility to notice and be aware of stress levels, both your own, and the
stress levels of your workers so that you can help them and protect them from
ending up in hazardous situations. Let’s take a look at chart number one and
learn a little bit more about what the supervisor’s responsibilities are in
stress management. To manage stress effectively the supervisor needs to:
1) Understand
what stress is, and how it wors
2) Know
the problems stress can cause
3) Identify
workers who are suffering from stress,
or who are likely to develop problems from stress
4) Identify
work situations which are causing or can potentially cause problems related to
stress.
5) Utilize
stress management techniques effectively for taking care of one’s own stress
levels
6) Teach
and direct others how to recognize, manage, and reduce their stress effectively
7) Create
a work environment which copes with stress in a helpful and productive manner
8) Provide
appropriate solutions to stress problems
9) Make
appropriate referrals for outside help when appropriate
What is stress? Well, experts differ on the exact definition
and explanation of what stress is, but to state it simply stress is the body’s
attempt to adjust to any changes in the environment, to be able to maintain a
healthy balance in the body. An example would be, you might put on a sweater if
you were cold, or take off a sweater if you were too hot to be able to maintain
a comfortable temperature. Well, the body does the same thing internally.
Whenever they’re any changes that happen in your environment your body attempts
to make a change to be able to maintain a comfortable balance. Another part of stress
is when the body perceives a threat. The body goes into an alarm system of
readiness to protect itself, and to defend itself. Any interference or
interruption with the body’s normal functioning causes an alarm to sound and
creates a response called the GSS, which is the general adaptation syndrome.
This is called the stress response. Adrenaline is poured into the bloodstream,
and the body goes into a state of readiness to adapt to change, or to protect
itself. One of the reasons why we experience so much stress is that the brain
does not make a distinction between a physical threat or an emotional threat, which
means that when somebody hurts somebody’s feelings by saying something their
body responds physically as if they were physically threatened. When this
happens our body goes into a high state of arousal, but we can’t run from the
situation, and we can’t hit somebody for saying something to us, so we hold
that stress in. This holding of stress is what creates overload. And if the
immune system continues to be activated eventually your body begins to
dysfunction on a medical level as well because the immune system goes into
overload. This is why it’s so important to maintain healthy stress levels at
work because when your workers go into overload it creates it sick leave, absenteeism,
and low motivation.
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