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A 4 page paper that beings with general comments about change and stress in the workplace. The essay explains some of Selye's thoughts about stress and then discusses what stress is in the workplace and how people can deal with and manage stress. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Change is difficult for anyone in any setting and change causes the human to experience stress. However, the amount of stress any employee is feeling, regardless of position in the
organization, is not only attributable to the job itself, it is all-encompassing of the persons life. Quite a number of years ago, Dr. Hans Selye discussed stress at great
length, even developing an assessment scale to identify the events in a persons life that cause stress, and, in fact, Selye is still discussed in todays literature about stress. Selye
identified two types of stress: eustress, which is the good kind that is needed for the human to function, and distress, which is the bad kind and leads to numerous
physical and mental diseases (Posen, 2004). Selye reminded readers that humans are born with an inherent fight or flight response mechanism that is intended to protect humans from harm (Posen,
2004). This mechanism automatically engages when a human (or any other animal) perceives a threat at which point different hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol increase (Posen, 2004). Eustress can
help a person become more motivated, more productive. Distress, by contrast, can cause a person to become ill. Too much stress and chronic stress are very harmful and can lead
to all sorts of illnesses, such as heart attacks. This type of stress continues to release different hormones which results in the person feeling tired and exhausted because of the
continual release of these hormones (Posen, 2004). Many of todays employees are experiencing chronic distress, which will simply be called stress for the rest of this essay. In todays society,
people do not have the fight or flight option. They just have to live through it. Stress is coming at people from all directions and we must all find ways
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