In the last byte, we looked at personal demands that affected stress levels in individuals. In today’s byte, we look at the consequences of stress and essentially cover 2 concepts – eustress and distress.
The above picture is adapted from the reference book.
It is a general assumption that stress is bad – but this is not really the case always. We have talked about eustress in an earlier discussion. The when the stress begins affecting the individual, we have another term – distress. It would be good to summarize the discussion in a pictorial form.
The above picture is adapted from the reference book.
An organization striving for high quality products and services would need to have a healthy workforce to support the effort. Eustress is a characteristic of healthy people; and distress is not!
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