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Elusive Work-Life Balance & Stress

Owen Pace Michela Pace Robert Papps Rakela Sammut

Stress

What is Stress?

Stress is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand. It can be caused by both good and bad experiences

Causes of Stress

  • Survival Stress - A common response to danger in all people & animals

  • Internal Stress - When a person worries about things that can't be controlled

  • Environmental Stress - The response to things around you that cause stress

  • Fatigue & Overwork - Can be caused by working too much or too hard

What is Stress?

Good Stress VS Bad Stress

Good Stress VS Bad Stress

Eustress, known as good stress is short-term and pushes you to accomplish greater things, in these situations, one tends to have a lot of control over the outcome

On the other hand, bad stress also known as distress can be both short-term and long-term, this often is accompanied by feelings of helplessness since you don’t have a lot of control over what’s happening and you may begin to feel compressed or trapped.

Job related stress

Job Related Stress

Work-related stress is a growing problem around the world that affects not only the health and well-being of employees, but also the productivity of organisations.

61% of workers are stressed

Factors causing work related stress

  • Problems with Colleagues - Harassment & Discrimination

  • Over working - Long hours, heavy workload, tight deadlines & a boring job

  • Pressure from employers - Over supervision, job security & lack of autonomy

Benefits to prevent stress at work

  • Less sick leaves and staff turnover
  • Increase productivity
  • Greater job satisfaction
  • Reduce costs to the employer
  • Improve community well being

Consequences of Stress

Consequences of Stress

Behavioral -

Overeating or undereating, anger outbursts and drug or alcohol abuse

Psychological -

Anxiety, depression, irratibility and sadness

Physical -

Headaches, muscle tension, sleeping problems and chest pains

Long term consequences

Cardiovascular diseases

Skin & Hair problems

Eating disorders

Dealing with stress

Dealing with Stress

Prioritization of tasks

Free time for yourself

Taking good care of yourself and keeping positive

Seek help

Regular exercise or relaxation

In extreme cases, one can consider to change jobs

Work-Life Balance

What does Work-Life Balance mean?

Maintaining a work-life balance is about separating your personal and professional lives without allowing one to encroach upon the other.

  • Does not mean an equal balance
  • Your best individual balance will vary over time
  • There is no perfect, one size fits all work life balance

Importance of Work-Life Balance

To maintain your own mental health

To ensure your physical health & well being

To increase productivity

Work-Life Balance History

Work-Life Balance throughout the years

Manufacturing laws of the late 1800's

1938 - A 44-hour work week was established

Work-Life Balance was brought back to the forefront in the 1980's

Work and Life became a key concept in the late 20th century

Demand Control Model

Demand Control Model

The Job Demand Control Model is aimed at balancing requirements & Autonomy

In jobs where control is given to time and deadlines, employees experience a lot more stress than when they can decide and use their own time schedule

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Low Strain Jobs

This is about the combination of not very demanding tasks and control latitude for the employee

High Strain Jobs

This refers to very demanding and/or complex jobs with very little control. The employee has no control and has to do as he is told.

Passive Jobs

These jobs are simple jobs with little to no decision latitude. This includes a lot of repetitive and production jobs.

Active Jobs

These jobs are highly demanding jobs that allow the employee to decide when he does his work.

Application

The Job Demand Control Model, indicates that those who have a high degree of work pressures and experience a low degree of control have an increased risk of stress.

If an employee finds his workload to be high due to the large number of tasks he needs to complete, the manager may want to offer him more time or a bit more freedom in his production.

Is it achievable?

Is it achievable?

What stops us from achieving Work-Life Balance?

Technology

Overworking

Isolation from Family

Social Media

Is it achievable ?

  • Setting Boundaries
  • Taking time off
  • Prioritizing
  • Being organised

Is it achievable ?

It is difficult to manage an elusive work-life balance because it’s an activity that needs to be maintained & difficult to keep consistent due to real life events however it is possible to achieve Work-Life Balance

Thank you

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