Question

Your boss has noticed that stress levels have been increasing in your work unit and has asked you to assess the problem and propose a plan of action for addressing it. What steps would you take to meet this request? What would be the first thing you would do, what factors would you take into consideration in conducting your assessment, and what plan of action do you think would be most promising?

Answer 1

Stress related to work can be assessed in terms of the below areas:

• Time investing on work and how it affect the work life balance:- This helps in understanding the effort needed for work and how much it impact the work life balance
• Work loads current system and how it can be managed:- The work load has serious impact on disturbing the interest in work.
• Client engagement issues:- Is the stress is because of the client engagement issues and how it can be addressed and resolved by senior management
• Internal office politics:- Intervention of manager of HR is needed if the internal politics create more stress on work.
• Satisfaction from the current job:- Proper enrichment on job, promotional scope, salary or compensation issues to be assesed and to be understand is that causing stress on the current work which may leads to diisatisfaction..
• Support from the internal team