How A Boss's Stress Hurts Productivity

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  irina saitoc08/12/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How A Boss's Stress Hurts Productivity

  Stress can have positive effects, and yet. We need a certain degree of stress to be efficient in work. Therefore, the key to an effective stress management is to determinam degree of stress that gives us energy, ambition and enthusiasm, without affect us but tonusul and health status

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  DerekIrvine08/29/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How A Boss's Stress Hurts Productivity

  Paul Spector, a professor of industrial psychology, recently was quoted in a Reuters article as saying: "Companies pay dearly in terms of lost productivity, sagging morale and higher absenteeism. The worst cases end in violence. Somebody didn't just come to work one day and shoot somebody. There's probably been a pattern of less extreme behaviors leading up to it."
  
  This was in an article on ???desk rage??? in America from MSNBC. The author talked about how it???s become trendy to engage in such stress-based behaviors. I would argue, if it???s become ???trendy??? to engage in such anger-based behavior at work, and we are noticing ???patterns of behavior??? leading up to it, then I believe we can establish a new ???trendy??? behavior and far healthier patterns.
  
  Why not make it trendy in your organization to say ???thank you???? Why not establish patterns of appreciation? If you transform the very culture of your organization in this way, those who do not fit the mold ??? those exhibiting ???desk rage??? ??? will either choose to leave or be shown the exit. We do have power over our emotions and our workplaces. We just need to reclaim it. And in the process, we will make our people feel safer in their work and, according to Spector, increase our bottom-line while we???re at it.
  
  I commented more on this topic here:
  http://globoforce.blogspot.com/2008/08/desk-rage-in-america-latest-trend.html