Stress Factors and Coping Strategies among Workers in an Organization

This article focuses on stress factors and coping strategies among workers. Stress has posed a worrisome situation that affects the performance of workers. In the bid to cope with such situations workers usually employ certain strategies. Extensive review of related literature was carried out and the article relied on secondary source of data. The study findings show that workers perceive workload, inadequate facilities, method and style of management as stressors and they cope with them by recognizing their limits, relaxing, being friendly, engaging in physical exercise and so on. The article recommends among other things that provision of conducive working environment, seminars and workshops, retraining of workers be carried out. Workers should be allowed to participate in decision-making.