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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Preventive Stress Management 6

In the last byte, we looked at goal setting and role negotiations as important organizational preventive stress mechanisms. In today's byte, we look at social support systems as one means to have preventive stress management in organizations.

Social support systems are crucial for an individual. Team building is one such means to get the supportive social relationship in the workplace; however this limits many a time to the organizational context alone. As individuals, it is essential to receive the socio-emotional support from personal relationships beyond the work place and this is important for psychological well being of an individual.

The following diagram is adapted from the reference book to help map out the various social support systems an individual possesses.

Understanding this, could help improve the work environment in a number of ways. Interpersonal communication is definitely a key to unlocking the social support that one looks towards a preventive stress management mechanism.

The plethora of relationships highlighted in the network provide emotional caring, information, feedback, modeling and other support that help the individual effectively structure his/her work to be less stressful.

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