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HRM Review Magazine:
Anger Management in Times of Recession
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With mounting work pressure and layoffs during times of recession, anger among the employees is on the rise. Anger is an extremely destructive emotion that affects the professional as well as personal lives of employees. In such a situation, employees need to learn how to control their anger. The management also needs to tackle it and show sympathy towards such employees who are buckling under work pressure, supporting and motivating them for better performance and help dispel their angry feelings.

 
 
 

Faced with a dramatically altered business landscape in the last few years, structure and content of work have changed tremendously, making it more cognitively complex and more time pressured. Nowadays, employees are expected to adapt quickly to the demands of radical developments in the industry and the organizations. The corporate world hardly realizes the problems of employees and is unlikely to provide lifelong careers even to the best of the best in the field. Declining job security is making more and more employees despise their jobs. When organizations are responding more rapidly to market pressures by developing mass customization processes, it creates and increases the pressure on employees. In such a situation, employees need to learn how to control anger and anger management methods needs to be given prominence. Work pressure results in anger which affects their professional as well as personal lives.

Anger is momentary temptation and madness focusing attention on animate or inanimate object. It is a strong feeling of extreme annoyance, displeasure and hostility. It is the outcome of emotional hurt when people feel mistreated or faced with serious problems in achieving personal targets. It is a negative state of mind and bad condition of physique. It is the result of tense, irritable and frustrated feeling of individuals. It weakens the body and mind of the people. They feel hurt, physically lashed out and fear being out of control. When a person becomes angry with others, they appear to be unpleasant and faulty persons, by exaggeration of their negative behavior. In a moment of anger, other good qualities of the person are easily ignored. In many cases, the intrinsically faulty person or thing, which caused the anger does not really exist.

 
 
 

HRM Review Magazine, Anger Management , Business Landscape, Emotional Reasoning, Economic Breakdown, Strategic Imperatives, Management Challenges, Momentary Temptation, Mass Customization Process, Momentary Behavior.