A Study on Psychological issues: Challenges of Employees

Tight deadlines, massive workloads, micromanagement and uncertainty – all realities that make your employees want to cringe. Why? Because they all lead to stress. And if excessive enough, they could even cause employees to become fearful about their jobs and their future with company. Those emotions can be a slow poison to any business, not only affecting employee health but also their levels of production. That’s why, it’s imperative that we should learn how to manage stress and fear at work. In order to do so, we need to understand workplace stressors and recognize fear within employees – from the hardest-working employees to most reserved. For instance, as a hard deadline creeps up, someone under duress may begin to panic. They scramble to finish and are succumbed to fear, asking themselves, “What if this isn’t good enough? Will I be reprimanded? Should I just quit now?” or worse, “Will I be fired?” In a state of fear, people compromise their ability to process thoughts and situations rationally. For some, their natural reaction is either fight or flight. Fight could be confronting their boss and demanding something. Or flight, keeping their head down and avoiding their boss all together. My Paper Concentrates on Psychological issues and Challenges faced by employees at work and suggests some solutions based on the study.