Tag Archive: Workplace stress

Apr 02 2012

Stress, plane and simple

By Diane Stafford After a few workplace violence events in mail centres, “going postal” entered the lexicon. This week, thanks to a widely shared newspaper headline about the inflight meltdown of a JetBlue pilot, we got: “This is your captain freaking.” Though not particularly fair or nice, the shorthand descriptions of workplace outbursts are here …

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Feb 16 2012

Workplace Stress Could Be Killing Careers

By Colleen Henry, WISN 12 Anxiety, depression, irritability — they are the cost of doing business for many first responders such as police officers, soldiers or physicians. But a groundbreaking study suggests that even indirect exposure to the trauma of others may profoundly affect the mental health of some surprising public servants. Neil McGinn has …

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Feb 15 2012

Conflict Management: Understanding Anger and the Brain

By Carol Fredrickson, Violence-Free.com Conflict in the workplace is an ever-growing issue and more and more of my clients are requesting programs on Managing Angry People, Angry Patients, Angry Guests, etc. The one question I’m asked most often after one of these presentations is, “Is it possible that when I’m really angry, my brain just …

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Jan 12 2012

Work Bully Victims Struggle with Dangerous Stress

By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience If you spend your workday avoiding an abusive boss, tiptoeing around co-workers who talk behind your back, or eating lunch alone because you’ve been ostracized from your cubicle mates, you may be the victim of workplace bullying. New research suggests that you’re not alone, especially if you’re struggling to cope. Employees …

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