title: Turning workplace anger and anxiety into peak performance. Strategies for enhancing employee health and productivity.
abstract: Traditional corporate approaches toward anger and anxiety in the workplace have ignored or exacerbated the problem. Human emotions are not only essential for job performance, they are a free resource that can be harnessed in ethical ways to enhance job productivity. Most of the causes and costs of workplace anger and anxiety can be prevented. In an ideal workplace, employees are internally motivated and self regulating because they are hired with care, placed in jobs serving them as well as the company, and supported with the required resources to accomplish their jobs. When companies treat employees with dignity and make efforts to empower them, employee self confidence and performance grows. Occupational and environmental health nurses are in positions to alter dysfunctional aspects of corporate culture while simultaneously working with individual employees who are angry or anxious. Successful companies are those that nurture their workers while achieving their mission. They treat employees with dignity and respect while challenging them to reach their full potential.
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authors.lastname: Helge
mesh_terms: D000786:Anger; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004644:Emotions; D004647:Employee Discipline; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D020415:Personnel Downsizing / Q000523:psychology; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D012307:Risk Factors; D013694:Temperament; D016526:Workload; D017132:Workplace