A free stress management utility, created with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), has been developed to assist managers with the ability to deal with their staff confidently and avoid stress in them was launched by the Chartered Institute of personnel and Development.
In a study conducted by the CIPD, it was found that stress was one of the major causes for continuing absence due to sickness, while bad management was the main reason for work-related stress.
The Head of the Public Policy of the CIPD, Ben Wilmott remarked that it was in the interest of the employers to make sure that managers had the requisite ability to manage people so that they could regulate and avoid strain and stress.
He pointed out that absence from work due to sickness and poor productivity were the two main results attributed to stress and was connected to a greater danger of accidents at the work place. Extended exposure to stress was also connected to health conditions like nervousness, depression, and heightened dangers of heart ailments.
Mr. Wilmott also added that managers could be the reason to create or worsen the condition of stress or they could assist to prevent and regulate it. He stated that the stress management utility being offered was one that would help managers to comprehend in what way their method of managing has an effect on other people and cab even assist them in making alterations in the way they behave in the long run.
The tool would include online resources for managers that would aid in managing their staff in a manner that could avoid and lower pressures inside the group. It would also provide learning content to assist people practising HR to provide support to managers to control their staff in such a way that pressure and strain are avoided and reduced.
