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What Workplace Pressures Are You Under?

  • Apr 12, 2024
What Workplace Pressures Are You Under?

Workplace stress, also known as work pressure, is when the requirements of the job and the worker's own ability, resources or needs do not fit, the individual corresponds to the adverse emotional and physiological reactions. Those from the work environment will make people feel threatened by the situation, psychologists call workplace stress, the following is easy to form in most people's workplace stress.

1, The role of unclear provisions

In the workplace, we often encounter such things: do not get clear work instructions. We are not even clear what we should do, responsible for what degree, the next person should take over the work from where. This uncertainty makes us often blamed for work that doesn't belong to us, but goes wrong. Some of our colleagues seem to be very good at shifting the blame onto us in this way, leaving us with only intense bitterness and indignation, sometimes mixed with a sense of guilt, even if we ourselves feel that that particular job should really be ours, or at least that we should have foreseen it beforehand and taken measures when it happened.

The lack of clarity about our responsibilities also puts us in a difficult position: if we do nothing, we are accused of being inactive; if we are proactive, we are accused of overstepping our bounds, of taking away from our colleagues, or of stealing from them. Examples abound. Unclear duties so that we can not give the work of the time and order of the best arrangement, so the pressure will arise.

2,Conflicting roles

When the two aspects of the profession are incompatible with each other, the pressure caused by the role will also arise. For example, for school teachers, one of their roles is the children in trouble in the guide, the role of the second is the enforcer of discipline and the maintenance of the authority of the school, there is a certain conflict between these two roles. No matter what one does, one will always see one's own imperfections, thus creating internal conflicts, fearing that those imperfections will be discovered by one's superiors and reprimanded, so that one will end up inappropriately making too low an assessment of oneself.

3, The lack of appropriate power

As far as most people are concerned, have a certain right to speak in life will ease the potential degree of pressure, most people at work hope that they have the power to influence the situation, and hope that someone to listen to their own views.

4, Lack of communication with others

No matter how good a person's work, lack of communication with colleagues can still be a potential source of stress. The consequences of poor communication channels often lead to a lack of accurate basis for work, important information is not transmitted to the appropriate place, the ability to control things will be reduced. Without evaluative feedback from colleagues, some people can become isolated from their coworkers, resulting in emotional vulnerability and a lack of self-confidence. The sense of isolation will also cause additional pressure in the work, if no one is familiar with the details of your work, if you are sick or emergency leave, there is no one can take over your work, which is indeed a heavy burden.

5, Lack of change in professional status

Rich in change of work like free air as fresh mind, and rich in creativity. Engaged in monotonous work will produce a "saturation" mentality, thus producing professional boredom. If you have to do the same thing every day, you will panic and life will become boring and depressing. Year after year at the same time doing the same thing, the only difference is only age, so that not only the enthusiasm for the work will disappear, the inner panic will also bring invisible pressure.

6, Knowledge is updated too quickly

To have knowledge as the pride of the office family is actually afraid of knowledge updates. Because for most of them, knowledge is updated too quickly is the culprit of the work pressure. Many highly educated people believe that their work pressure is not caused by competitors, but also with the "irregular working hours, overtime" has nothing to do with the "professional knowledge is updated quickly, the knowledge structure is not complete" caused. More than 20% of these people believe that "the company can not give training and learning opportunities," which exacerbates their own knowledge in the context of the rapid renewal of the general background of anxiety.

7,Conflict with supervisor

Discord with the boss is an important source of stress. It can be said that the boss can exert pressure directly on our work, control our position and work authority, give or revoke the opportunity to promote us, improve or reduce our status in the hands of the boss undoubtedly, the boss can dominate many aspects of the employee's career.

Another type of pressure that arises from the employee-supervisor relationship is. Employees do not get the praise they deserve from their supervisors, so they feel belittled, and their enthusiasm for their work as well as their motivation is dampened. If the supervisor constantly criticizing people, or habitually interfering with the work of subordinates, it will damage the creativity of employees, so that employees can not really release their potential.

8, Conflict with coworkers

Work for the whole day together between colleagues to create a large number of conflict opportunities, in order to status, sphere of influence or some details of the work of the conflict occurred in almost every office. So people who could help each other at work become enemies, and in an atmosphere of accusation and counter-accusation, few people are able to recognize their own shortcomings. Sometimes people not only have to face legitimate competition related to work, but also forced to face a lot of unnecessary strife at the same time.

9, Overworked

Occupational satisfaction from the visible fruits of labor, if constantly forced to work on a job has not been completed before another job, will greatly reduce this sense of satisfaction, leading to disillusionment and painful emotions, and ultimately interfere with the normal course of work. Without being able to complete a task from start to finish, it is impossible to assess the value of the strategies and methods used in the process and to improve future work. No one works best under constant pressure. In between jobs, you also need some brief time to catch your breath, enjoy the scenery around you, and readjust your thinking. ...... If we don't have our own time to calm down and think about our work, we will spin like a gyroscope and eventually lose ourselves.