Work-related stress among managers – its causes and effects [implications for family life]

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The article addresses important and current issues regarding stress at work of contemporary managers and the implications of stress, including for family life. The purpose of the article is to indicate the causes and effects of managers’ professional stress. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The research problem is an attempt to answer the question – how stress affects managers in professional and private life? Based on the literature of the subject and in relation to the results of selected surveys, the authors prove that professional stress in the case of managers adversely affects not only the professional environment in which the manager works, but also has a bearing on the family’s functioning.THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: Professional stress is an increasingly common phenomenon in modern organizations. In the case of managers, it is usually the result of their weakened resilience in overcoming and solving the difficulties, long-term fatigue and emotional strains they experience at work. RESEARCH RESULTS: Stress affects the entire manager’s surroundings negatively. At work, it is increased absenteeism, more mistakes made, emotional arousal or loss of self-confidence. In family life, this is excessive nervousness, physical and mental tension that acts destructively on family members, lack of interest in the affairs of loved ones and aggression.CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Employers and personnel departments in order to level the level and effects of stress should initiate research aimed at identifying the causes of manager’s stress. Training in stress management and undertaking activities that reduce the stressfulness of the work environment, such as changing the scope of tasks, goals or responsibilities, are important.