Working life stress and combat stress

Stress comes to our life as a factor which effects a person physically, socially, psychologically and behavioral and when not controlled generates meltdowns and prepares a base to emerge diseases. Any event, change, development, a conflict or disagreement situtations occuring in the lives of individuals constitute stress. Individuals facing stress by living in these situations, consequently develop different attitudes and exhibit different fighting methods. Working life is an environment that hosts the stress factors. The average one-third of daily life is passed in workplaces, and takes an important place in the life of individuals and profoundly affects the mental health of individuals. Nowadays individuals face with stress with reasons of individual, organizational and environmental sources. In this context, the factors causing stress in individuals are due to the personality structure, the overall environment and the quality of his work life. This condition causes individual results such as reluctance, hopelessness, emotional distress, bad habits, physiological disorders and mental functions and in addition it reveals performance loss, absenteeism and low productivity in various organizational results. The effect of stress on individuals is important to keep a high level of performance and efficiency of the employee. Stress which is a mood that should be kept under control and managed –well; acts as a barrier to achieve the goals of the organization. To eliminate this obstacle, or at least to reduce the effects of stress, managing stress is required. In this study, sources of stress in working life, the troubles it caused and methods of combating these problems are tried to be theoretically evaluated. Key Words : Stress, work-related stress, sources of stress, stress results, combat stress