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D Helge

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PubMed2001

Positively channeling workplace anger and anxiety. Part I.

Negative emotions are not only a natural component of the world of work, they must be acknowledged and engaged if individuals are to make good decisions and if businesses are to create effective teams. Understanding that anger is a fear based emotion and that the brain is structured so anger and fear can be processed more quickly than rational thinking provides tremendous insights for occupational health personnel. Occupational and environmental health nurses can use the techniques presented in this article to develop employee self awareness and skills for positively channeling their workplace anger and anxiety.

Anger↗
PubMed2001

Positively channeling workplace anger and anxiety. Part II.

Emotions are powerful, free resources for businesses. Just as employee enthusiasm is essential for superior productivity, anger can be harvested for peak performance. An array of psychological and physiological tools have been described to empower employees so they may constructively handle their anger, anxiety, and stress. These tools can be used to reduce health care and workers' compensation costs while creating an effective workplace in which angry outbursts or passive aggressive behavior is rare. Methods for de-escalating angry responses have also been described. Using these techniques can help ensure a nonviolent workplace while inducing a cooperative environment for problem solving and lowering the frustrations of employees.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2001

Turning workplace anger and anxiety into peak performance. Strategies for enhancing employee health and productivity.

Traditional corporate approaches toward anger and anxiety in the workplace have ignored or exacerbated the problem. Human emotions are not only essential for job performance, they are a free resource that can be harnessed in ethical ways to enhance job productivity. Most of the causes and costs of workplace anger and anxiety can be prevented. In an ideal workplace, employees are internally motivated and self regulating because they are hired with care, placed in jobs serving them as well as the company, and supported with the required resources to accomplish their jobs. When companies treat employees with dignity and make efforts to empower them, employee self confidence and performance grows. Occupational and environmental health nurses are in positions to alter dysfunctional aspects of corporate culture while simultaneously working with individual employees who are angry or anxious. Successful companies are those that nurture their workers while achieving their mission. They treat employees with dignity and respect while challenging them to reach their full potential.

Anger↗