Stress
Management at work
The Health & Safety Executive’s Management Standards.
The Health & Safety Executive’s Stress Management Standards represent a set of conditions that reflect high levels of health, well being and organisational performance. The standards address 6 key areas of work that, if properly managed, can help to reduce work related stress.
The standards are :
1. Demands: Workload, work patterns,
and the work environment.
2. Control: How much say the person has in the way
they do their work.
3. Support: The encouragement, sponsorship and resources
provided by the organisation, line management and colleagues
4. Relationship:
Promoting positive working to avoid conflict and dealing with unacceptable behaviour.
5. Role: Whether people understand their role within the organisation and whether
the organisation ensures that the person does not have conflicting roles.
6. Change: How organisational change (large or small) is managed and communicated
in the organisation
International Stress Management Association UK (ISMAUK)
The
International Stress Management Association
UK is a registered charity with a multi-disciplinary professional membership.
It exists to promote sound knowledge and best practice in the prevention and reduction
of human stress. It sets professional standards for the benefit of individuals
and organisations using the services of its members.
www.isma.org.uk
Stress Management in the workplace is becoming increasingly important. Smartfoundation courses are ideal to motivate and inspire your people, or reward a group for outstanding performance. Employees and managers alike love our programs. We share life-changing ideas with everyone in the company to reduce stress and increase performance at home and at work.
The added bonus for your employees is knowing you value them enough to provide programs that benefit them professionally and personally. The equation is simple happy at work + happy at home = all round success!
Concern amongst British business for the well-being of their staff has never been greater.
Why? In short... the effect of employee
wellness is a key determiner in the overall performance of the business. More
and more studies are showing that employers who integrate wellness into their
overall objectives find that they experience lower sickness costs, lower rates
of absenteeism, increased productivity and better employee morale.
We
offer a range of well-being programs in Stress Management
And Relaxation Techniques that promote balance, physically, mentally and emotionally.
We also offer a range of professional and personal performance management initiatives
to promote organisational and individual change.
Naturally it makes commercial
sense to reduce absenteeism and ill health and increase productivity and performance
in your organisation.
Did you know that work-related stress accounts
for over a third of ill health? Or that each case of work-related stress, depression
or anxiety related ill health leads to an average of 30.2 working days lost.
Plus a massive total of 13.8 million working days were lost to work-related
stress, depression and anxiety in 2006/07. Smart foundations can help your organisation
reduce sickness and absence costs.
Research from the Health and Safety Executive shows tackling stress can have a positive effect on:
- Employee commitment to work
- Staff performance and productivity
- Staff turnover or intention to leave
- Staff recruitment and retention
- Customer satisfaction
- Organisational image and reputation
Most employers focus on helping employees who have suffered stress-related ill health to return to work rather than tackling its causes, according to a survey by Personnel Today's sister publication Employment Review.
It's not what happens, it's what you do about it that makes the difference." Nelson Mandela
