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From an organisational perspective this toolkit offers organizations the ability
to assess its current stress levels across a number of factors, which may assist the
organisation to specifically address those issues causing stress within the workplace.
Organization Receives:
By administering the toolkit within an organization a graphical report highlighting the below factors is possible:
- Predominant organisational signs and symptoms of stress
- Physical, mental, emotionally, behavioural
- Group Stress levels
- Under aroused, optimum, burnout
- Burnout Levels
- Melt Down
- Coping
- Working Well
- Tolerance to Change
- Ability to tolerate new and unfamiliar situations
- Ability to be tolerant of problems that are difficult to solve
- Ability to effectively tolerate multiple, distinctive or unrelated information
- Predominant Personality type
- Time management
- "Eliminating Stressors" refers to individual's ability within the organisation as a whole to handle four main types of stressors:
- Work overload.
- Encounter- Conflict in the work situation
- Situational- Working conditions, sudden change
- Anticipatory- Unpleasant expectations, personal fears.
- "Developing Resilience" refers to a persons ability to develop effective ways to handle the stress in their life that cannot be eliminated, such as, incorporating a healthy balance of physical, spiritual, cultural, social, family and work activities.
- "Effective Delegating" refers to a persons ability to effectively delegate tasks to other people who have the necessary information and expertise to complete the task successfully.
- "Short Term Coping" refers to a persons ability to approach difficult tasks in a positive light and to ensure they have incorporated some relaxation techniques into their busy day.
- Susceptibility to stress
- Based on the premise that good and bad events in one's life can increase stress levels and make one more susceptible to illness and mental health problems
- Workplace stressors - (Role Boundary, Role insufficiency, Responsibility, Future uncertainty, Resource inadequacy, Under valued, Under Utilisation, Non participation, Role ambiguity, Role overload, role conflict)
The results can be broken down into comparison results such as:
- Branch results - Sydney, Brisbane
- Position results - Supervisors, Managers, Directors
- Subject results – those who have taken stress leave in the past 12 months versus those who haven't
- Male versus female
- Time frame - before and after interventions
- Industry comparison results - health industry versus Security Services Industry

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