Responsibilities of Manager and Leader in Relation to the Reduction of Workplace Stress

DOI

10.2991/msmi-16.2016.28How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Workplace stress; Manager Responsibilities; Leader responsibilities; Stress reduction

Abstract

Pressure is part and parcel of all work and helps to keep employees motivated. But excessive pressure can lead to workplace stress which undermines performance; it is costly to employers and can make people ill. To reduce the stress the leaders and managers should undertake different responsibilities in their own station. The current essay analyzed the major sources of workplace stress firstly. Then the responsibilities of a manager and a leader were analyzed respectively. The manager should reduce workplace stress from plan, communication, assigning task and solve problems without blame, and the leaders responsibility include activate, evaluation status, authorization, beliefs and passion. Differences between leaders and managers responsibility to alleviate workplace stress is the focus of this essay, and make this article differs from other related studies.

Copyright

© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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