Stress
is unavoidable when working, but types of stress are different depending on the
reasons for working. We covered 4 types of choosing works: working without
thoughts or values, working without any other choice despite the stress,
working as the means for certain goals, and immersing in works due to love
towards the jobs.
Some
of you might ask, 'how can you categorize this into only four types? They could
be mixed.' Well, you may feel that 2~3 mingled together, but the mind does not
operate being mingled. For example, let's think about a case of you thinking
that 'I work without thoughts because it is the means for my purpose.' This
thought is separated into two different thoughts from the mind's point of view:
'working without thoughts' and 'working as the means for the purpose.' The mind
operates in one way of the two, not simultaneously.
First,
stress is not generated when working without thoughts since the conscious does
not operate. People in this category just do what they are told to do only. They
walk on eggshells while they are at the workplace and get off work when it's
time. If they have to stay and work overtime, they will be fine with that if
they get the overtime payment. Simply saying, they just follow and do as others
do. There is no need for thinking. They don't get stress
generated from their work. It may seem that it is dangerous to have people of
this type as staff, but they are very suitable for your right arms. There are
strengths and weaknesses. In case of having a person of this type as your right
arm, you are more likely to have problems if that person thinks about his or
her work. But you can't judge that person is either wrong or bad. When looking
at business problems generated by a person you trust, most of them are due to
that he or she thinks about the given jobs.
Second,
those who work without any other option, they get stress more from personal
problems than from their work. People in this category get stress from
themselves that they have no other options than working even though they don't
want to work. Regardless of the amount of work, they just hate the situation
they are involved in. In general, they have complaints about the commute,
working environment, the importance of their work, coworkers, etc.; they say
they don't like their work because of these reasons, but in fact, they are just
finding the stress about themselves from other causes. They get the stress from
themselves that they must work for economic values even though they don't want
to work. They cannot express that they hate their work, resulting in stress
being operated within them and making themselves suffer more difficulties.
Therefore, they end up blaming their surroundings due to the stress about
themselves, not the stress about the work.
Third,
those doing their jobs as the means for their purpose think of the next goal in
the future when they do well on their present works because they think their
work is not the goal and the dream but is just like a stepping-stone towards
their goal. So, people in this category have a lot of stress about
their work. They complain a lot about their works and jobs because of not the
stress about themselves but the work stress. It doesn't mean that they hate
their work. They just get stress from their work. Especially,
people whose work is related to cooperation are in this category. Those who are
willing to work well as the means for their purposes are also in this category.
They've got to do their jobs nicely, but they are stressed out when they are
given works to do because what they do is not for their goals but the means for
their purposes.
Let's talk about the stress of a
person who was once a civil servant for an example. It is very usual that they
are given extra work to do from their boss 10~20 minutes before they get off
work. He was given extra work and told to finish them before the meeting that
was scheduled for the next morning. 'Basically, what my boss is saying is don't
go home and get to work all night up. That drives me crazy! This happened
frequently, so I just quit the job! I couldn't deal with the stress anymore. I
actually loved my job and enjoyed my work, but I was always ordered to do extra
work right before the time that I get off work even though they could be done
during the work hours. That was dreadful.'
Fourth, those who immerse in the
charm of their work and enjoy working itself do not get stress, but have strong
passion generated. They think it is worth enough to stay all night up for work.
They really enjoy their work. The passion generated at this point is the power
to immerse in the fun and interest; as it gets strengthened, achievement also
gets strengthened resulting in no stress. However, excessive immersion is the
problem. This excessive immersion can be usually seen in males' psychology.
This excessive immersion does not allow them to feel the tiredness. The
excessive passion generated by excessive immersion makes us not know the
physical tiredness. Due to this, a sudden severe illness, heart attack, and
sudden death may occur.
Those who work even though they hate
working evade stress pretty well in their own ways when stress comes in because
they cannot endure it. It is the same for those who work as the means for their
purposes. People in these two categories get to work as they get big stress but
cannot immerse themselves in their work passionately.
In cases of working passionately due to
the charm of work, it may look good, but it is very dangerous. People in this
category do not have a fixed time to go and off work. They immerse themselves
in their work without considering fulfilling requirements for survival such as
eating, sleeping, resting, etc. because they are so passionate about working
itself. They think the time for sleeping, eating, commuting, resting, etc. is
waste. They think working itself fulfills the economic values, values of human
relationships, and values of social activities and feels the happiness of
self-actualization. It applies the same for other things as well. If excessive
immersion is generated like this, a sudden physical problem might occur due to
chronic fatigue. One of the reasons for sudden death is excessive immersion in
the charm of work. It is because health is not the number one priority to be
taken care of in this case.
Work is always followed by stress.
For those having knowledge related work gets stress due to operations of the
conscious; for those having work that is related to physical activities have
physical tiredness accumulated because their jobs are the operations of the
unconscious expressions. Thus, works are directly related to stress.
Stress is not related to the amount
of work; the work itself is stress. This is related to the work operating as
one's own value; if the work is not connected to economic values, values of
human relationships, and values of social activities, strong stress is
generated making us feel as if we are the slaves of the work and economic
values. However, thinking reversely, work can be enjoyable and comfortable if
it is for making one's own value. By doing so, we can feel the charm of the
work and perceive it as fun and interesting unknowingly. Just make sure not to
immerse yourself in work excessively. To do so, your work life and home life
must be managed harmoniously.
How not to immerse yourself in the
charm of work excessively is to know the values of work. Economic value is not
the only value. When other values are pursued, economic value is followed. Whatever
your work is, you can be happy if you assign a value to the work. Especially,
if you assign one of either value of human relationships or values of social
activities to your work, passion will be generated; you can prevent yourself
from being excessively immersed in the work. I experimented on adjusting the
ratio based on the debate for the value of task distribution in men and women when
I lectured laborers from the factory.
When I gave a lecture to laborers, I
had an experiment of adjusting the ratio of males and females along with the
discussion about these values. The productivity was
improved and the fraction defective was decreased. Connecting the values of
human relationships and the values of social activities to labor improved the
immersion of individual psychology. Like this, work and stress are closely connected
with each other. This stress could make you suffer in difficulties both
physically and psychologically, but it could offer you values of human
relationships and social values.
Work
and psychology are deeply related to each other. Intellectual laborers have
stress generated as they concentrate on their thoughts and memories by the
operations of the conscious; physical laborers get physical tiredness
accumulated as they focus on their expressions (speeches, actions, and facial
expressions) unknowingly by the operations of the unconscious. So, the
relationship between work and psychology must be understood accurately to live
happily as you heal the stress. Let's cover differences in psychology based on
these four categories mentioned above.
First,
those who work without thoughts may feel everything comfortable and keep a work
efficiency, but there is no happiness. The work efficiency neither increases
nor decreases because they only do what they are told to do. They just work
comfortably, which does not allow them to make improvements or have creativity.
When looking at this, you can see who is going to be the right person for a
certain kind of work and will be able to assign the work to that person. If the
work does not require either creativeness or development possibility but is the
work that keeps work efficiency, 'the person working without thoughts' is going
to be the right person for the work. If another person who thinks about the
given work takes in charge of the work, problems are more likely to happen.
Second,
those who work even though they don't like to work are neither comfortable nor
happy. In most cases, people in this category work in the short term or
part-time. They cannot endure the stress they get from their work. Work
efficiency and productivity decrease; there is no creativeness and development
possibility; problems occur within their psychology. Due to this, they don't
have meanings and values of life because their work is not related to economic
values, values of human relationships, and values of social activities.
Third, those working as the means for
purposes have compulsions and anxieties because of two reasons. One is that
they must work and accomplish step by step; the second is that they also move
towards achievement and goals. They have compulsions and anxieties such as 'I
must do this well,' 'I've got to finish this quickly,' 'I must have decent
outcomes,' etc. because they must accomplish the purposes they've wanted by
having their present work done nicely. Because of this, strong stress is
generated; it develops into psychological disorders in many cases. Having a
psychological disorder cannot be a matter of good or bad because the
psychological problem can be either good or bad. The cause of psychological
problems at this point is the phenomenon aroused by compulsions and anxieties. The
creativeness and efficiency of work drop by these compulsions and anxieties.
People in this category think that it is fine to work as much as they need and
that they don't have to do their work nicely because their work is not for the purpose,
they wanted but the means for the purpose. They can continue on their work
because they can still dream of possibilities toward their purposes and goals
despite the decrease in creativeness and efficiency.
Fourth,
those immersing themselves in the charm of work can be happy because they
pursue happiness as their passion and achievement get strengthened. This is the
happiness within one's mind making him or her can feel. According to this, the
passion becomes strengthened. When seeing these problems through, it is very
good and but generates problems in every human relationship including family
because they have limited human relationships by meeting others related only to
the work. Therefore, the characteristic of a person with limited human
relationships this way works passionately and enjoy the fun of working.
You must understand that psychology
about work is constantly operating if you want to prevent psychological
problems, treat psychological disorders, and live happily with meanings and
values of life.
By understanding how the mind and
psychology operate, you can choose and assign the right person for the right
place. This can be applied to production workers as well. For example, if a
person’s job is related to production or assembly line, it applies differently
depending on the types of duties and tasks, such as direct labor, management or
supervision, examination, or quality control. Rather
than a person's ability, his or her mind and psychology are more important. A
person's ability can be displayed at his or her best as he or she increases the
work efficiency by understanding how the mind and psychology operate.
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