Stress Management Strategies:A New Way to Achieve Success

In today's work scenario, when the whole world is dealing with the problem of economic crisis, most employees have to handle too much work pressure in order to secure their jobs. In their effort of coping with the challenges that they have to face while working, there have been many people who are complaining about being stressed out. Though it is believed that a little bit of stress is necessary to make employees work and achieve their goals, too much of it actually leads to decrease in quality of work as well as employee productivity. Stress at work is also said to be responsible for giving rise to physical as well as emotional problems. The nature of work has gone through drastic changes over the last century and it is still changing at whirlwind speed. Stress is an inevitable part of our corporate lives. Considering all the bad results of stress, companies are conducting various programs and trainings regarding stress management at the workplace. Moreover, if the person does not learn to handle the stress experienced at work, it starts taking a toll on his/her personal life, giving rise to a whole set of problems at the home front too. Hence this paper attempts to study the ways of handling stress at work, the causes of stress in the workplace and some simple techniques that will help a person to get their attention away from stress, thus making their less stressed out.