External Effects on Workplace Health and Safety
Analyze how emotional and physical aspects of a person’s life can influence the employee’s effectiveness in the work environment.
Evaluating the external effects on workplace health and safety, employee effectiveness in the work environment critically depends on the emotional and physical aspects of an employee’s life; other words know as daily life’s hassles, or stress and stressors. Although, people should not let their personal situations affect their job performances; however, some of our daily life hassles that we face, overpower us, causing stress within our performances while at work. Just to note, there are ways of effectively dealing, or coping with the stressors that we face from our daily life hassles.
- To describe what the emotional aspects are; in term, emotions are one’s feelings, sentiments, sensations, and passions for, or about something or someone. The emotional aspects of a person’s life can influence an employee’s effectiveness in the workplace by allowing or disallowing, positive or negative behavior such as agitation and, or disturbances; which can lead to “trouble” and even death.
- To describe what the physical aspects may be, we can consider it to be of the body, and of being real and touchable. In other words, one’s physical influential aspects towards effective behavior at work, distinguishes his or her work performances.
To evaluate how the emotional and physical aspects of a person’s life can influence one’s effectiveness within the work environment, we must first begin to know and understand its origin, or the roots of the emotional and physical behavior(s) to determine, evaluate, and .
I will be using the death of a love one to evaluate emotional and physical aspects, and the effectiveness of an employee’s work performances.
People’s emotional and physical state of mind differs individually. For example, one individual may react emotionally vs. another individual reacting physically, as a way of coping with the death of a love one, or as a way of coping with one’s daily, life’s hassles. One emotional reaction may be withdrawal, while the other may be violence, displaying both the emotional and physical aspects a person’s life.
Within the work environment, the individual who is dealing with emotional withdrawal would most likely get less work done, because of their feelings or thoughts overpowering their physical abilities to perform. This is why most individuals whom have emotionally withdrawn, are, deemed to be in a state of depression. From this scenario, the employee whom faces emotional depression, their effectiveness within the work environment would be less satisfactory because of his or her state of being. The individual, who is dealing with the death of a love one violently, would most likely get less work or no work at all done as well. In addition, this person can and may, be a threat to himself or herself, as well as towards other employee’s.