There is a saying that pressure (stress) is the process of making beautiful natural diamonds. This holds partially true in the since of stress placed upon individuals in the workplace. A certain amount of stress can be a key motivator to make individuals perform at an effective capacity with an effective outcome. However, every individual is different, and every individual has a threshold when either capacity and/or performance outcome start to diminish. The buzzword in industry for the last two decades have incorporated in their initial training is to motivate individuals to have a since urgency. Ultimately this was a sugar-coated buzzword that was used to get people to do every task in the quickest amount of time! This is not a good “normal” for a successful psychologically healthy workplace. A psychologically healthy workplace enhances retention, moral, productivity, as well as medical cost containment. Should there be a focus to improve a more flexible arrangement in the training and maintenance in the areas of health, safety, employee involvement, employee growth and development , employee recognition, employee work-life …
