Chapter5 PDF
Chapter5 PDF
Chapter5 PDF
FAHH 3053
OCCUPATIONAL STRESS
CHAPTER 5
Work-Life Balance and Stressors
Introduction
What is work and life balance?
- management/prioritisation
- flexibility
- control
- interests/career goals
WORK-LIFE
Working hours BALANCE
emerges as one
of the issues of
great concern. • Rotation between
nights and days.
• Difficulty focusing on
even the simplest thing.
State of emotional, mental,
and physical exhaustion
caused by excessive and
prolonged stress.
More
problems
Significant increase in with
bad habits. relationships.
•career advancement
Excessive stress • better job opportunities and
and tension in the retirement
workplace
Reasons Why
Staff Leave
Their Jobs
1. Work related
2. Life style
3. Unique Personality traits
1. Work related causes of burnout
✓Feeling like you have little or no control over your work.
Set goals to
respond Avoid over Negotiate to
more thinking. Solution
effectively.
MAKING CHOICES
Friends Relationships
Self Care
GET
SUPPORT
RECOVERY
STRATEGIES
REEVALUATE GOALS
AND PRIORITIES
USE SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Increase Increase
employee awareness of
employees to
sense of access flexible
control and working
choice. arrangements
Flexible working hours to all
employees including
managers and supervisors.
Improving safety
wellbeing and Retention and
respect for all Attraction Strategy
employees in
workplace
Flexible leave
arrangements
Nurture a positive view of
yourself
Make connections
Keep things in
Avoid seeing change as perspective
insurmountable
problems.
BUILDING Take care of
RESILIENCE yourself.
Accept that change
is a part of living.
Look for opportunities for
self-discovery
Move toward your
goals. Maintain a
hopeful outlook
Take decisive actions.
Control Work Environment
• Working hours, breaks, start time, stop
time, days per week.
• Power nap.
• Change your environment at least once.
• Personalize office or workspace, enjoy
working in it.
BALANCING WORK AT HOME
• Don’t take your work home
• Give family your undivided attention