'Stress management can enhance productivity'

Stress Management can enhance productivity besides having long-term positive impact on overall relationship between the employee and the employer. This was the upshot of the presentations given at a workshop on "Stress Management" arranged by the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Saturday.
The trainers, Faiza Muzaffar Ali and Uzma Ilyas spoke at length on the types of stress and how it could be avoided. Chief executive officers, business executives, entrepreneurs and students attended the workshop.
The trainer said that the businessmen through stress management cannot only save their time and energy but money as well. Stress has direct bearing on the efficiency of a person and resultantly on an industrial unit therefore a proper strategy to manage stress must be part of training of top management officials.
The trainers quoted a number of examples whereby an industrial unit touched the zenith by adopting stress management strategies or by implementing best business doing practices. It is a common experience that in stress at workplace, the efficiency of a worker or an officer nosedive while in a stress free atmosphere, the efficiency of worker even surpasses his or her abilities.