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Organization Can Be A Stressful Place In Which To Work, Thus Stress Management Is Becoming An Important Issue At Work. It Can Be Argued That The Responsibility For Stress Management Lies With Both The Organization And The Individuals Who Are, Or C...

ORGANISATIONAL THEORY AND ANALYSIS

Organization can be a stressful place in which to work, thus stress management is becoming an important issue at work. It can be argued that the responsibility for stress management lies with both the organization and the individuals who are, or could be affected by stress. Explain why organization are stressful place and discuss who should have the responsibility for stress management and why.

Organization is social structure. That is to say an organization is a group of people intentionally organized to accomplish an overall, common goal or set or goal. The range of a business organization can formed from 2 people to 10 or thousands. (http://www.managementhelp.org/org_thry/org_defn.htm) Nevertheless, under the name of team spirit and culture, a great management can encourage people to believe that the organization, the team or the company is an entity. The fact is that organization is affected by external environment and internal environment. It is never exactly the same phenomenon from one moment to next. Organization is composed of individuals, each of whose physical, emotional, can fluctuate from hour to hour. Therefore, organization can be a stressful place; stress management is an important part at work. (G A Cole, Organizational Behavior P.2-9) In the following essay I would like to explain why organizations are stressful place and discuss who should have the responsibility for stress management and why.

Since the complex nature of organization, it is not surprise that the people who work in an organization are face to a range of conflicting pressures, some of them will lead to individual stress. As I mention in the introduction, an organization is composed with individuals, the fluctuation of their physical and emotional, each of whose action and reaction will affect the whole organization phenomenon and stressful occur. Marshall & Cooper (1981) emphasize that ‘stress’ is a different phenomenon from...