MGMT 453 Week 9 Blog

Based on the tests that I completed this week, I learned the following:

1. I’ve had a stressful year
2. My Type A personality test is a 37 – impatience/irritability
3. My Coping/stress management skills score is a 81 – problem focused coping

I’ve taken quite a few tests like this in the past so I’m pretty familiar with my results and how I deal with stress. I’m not sure that there is much I can do with trying to limit stress in my personal and professional life as I usually get stressed over legit things that are going on in my life some some of the major events that are listed in the stress inventory assignment. When these major life events happen, I usually get stressed about the things that I can’t control or things that I’m anxious for in the future. One example was moving to California and stressing about what it was like where I was going to live and how I was going to like California. I guess one of the ways that I can lower my stress level during this time is to take deep breathes and recognize that I am stressed. Then understand that there isn’t anything I can do about it because it is out of my control. That usually helps from past experience.

Doing some initial research, I think organizations are most concerned with work-related stress and how that can impact job performance as they should. Anything that is in the power of the organization to alleviate some stress from their employees they will do it because they care about performance and the well-being of their employees. Looking at what organizations are doing to help their employees manage stress, especially during COVID, was allowing employees to set up personal offices so they could work from home some of the time. One of the most important things employers can do to help their employees manage stress is decreasing the workload and expecting less from their employees. If they start lowering the bar, then employees will become less stressed because they aren’t expected to complete as much work. The important thing is that employees don’t rely on saying “I’m stressed” in order to get out of completing work which is what it has come down to since COVID.