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Stress




  Work-life balance is a broad concept related to and a result of research into job satisfaction.

  You could say work-life balance considers career and ambition with pleasure, leisure, and spiritual development.

   Everyone's needs, experiences and goals define the balance. There is no one size fits all solution.



  The one size fits all mentality causes frustration specially stemmed from universal application of standard policy knowing everyone's life is different, different things considered to integrate processes. They have to be customized.



Clearly, stress caused problems concern us all.



   Symptoms cause heart disease, a weakening immune system, frequent headaches. Poor coping skills give way to irritability, jumpiness and difficulty concentrating.



But the feeling simply working hard is not enough anymore.



      “To get ahead, a 70-hour work week is the new standard. The little time left is spread among        relationships, kids and sleep”.



Increased work takes time from family, friends and personal growth.







   Texas Quick is an expert witness in trials of companies accused of overworking employees. When people get worked beyond their capacity, companies pay the price. Most experts feel it's management's responsibility to reduce stress. The load is thrown back to the employee to simplify his life and take more time for his own health.





  A solution comes from research to combine all facets of work, home and self as a comprehensive situation. Friedman urges pursuit of  'four way'  wins to improve performance across all walks of life.



  The term 'superwoman' defines a Western woman who juggles many roles as a worker, homemaker and other associations. Superwoman differs from the 'career' woman known to sacrifice family life for career, superwoman strives to excel in both.



   The 'helicopter' parent is new colloqial for parents who stay close to their children's experiences and problems, most about school. Helicopters in that they hover closely overhead, rarely out of reach, whether the children need them or not.



  The cell phone now likened to the world's longest umbilical cord. On their behalf, parents point to rising tuition costs in claiming to protect their interest and investment like any other consumer would.





Risk management is a skill for all but some children are denied, helicopter parents restrict activities.



  Schools follow similar risk-averse principles keeping children kept in classrooms longer restricting activities once considered normal.



  Blackhawk parents, those who cross the line over a mere excessive zeal to unethical behavior like writing college admission essays for them.



  The kyoiku mom is a well known, but least liked Japanese pop-cultured figure. Comparable to the American stage mother who forces her children into show business or the self-sacrificing mother who coerces theirs into medical school. The stereotype is the kyoiku mama is feared by her own children, blamed by the press for school fears and, even suicides, envied and resented by mothers of children who don't study as diligently and fare less well on exams.



   How stress is processed determines how much stress is felt and how close someone is to burnout. One can experience few stressors, unable to process the stress well and will experience burnout. Another might experience significant stressors, process each well and avoid burnout.



   Malach and Leiter define the antithesis of burnout as engagement, characterized by energy, involvement and effectiveness, the opposites of exhaustion, cynicism and ineffectiveness.



   Boreout is a management theory that posits lack of work, boredom and lack of satisfaction a common malaise in modern organizations, especially in office-based white collar jobs.



Boreout consists of three elements, boredom, lack of challenge and lack of interest.



  The symptoms of boreout lead to employees coping, or work avoidance strategies to project the perception they are already under stress, overworked, they are heavily in demand and need not be given more work. The aim for the boreout is to look busy, the status not jeopardized and, certainly, not lose the job.



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