A study carried out in 1990 by an American based firm showed that corporate stress eats away as much as 45% of after tax profits. Come to think of it, if you are an Indian company, anyways there's not much left after paying taxes! We at HHC believe that corporate stress is a disease syndrome, with its definite signs and symptoms, mentioned further. If you find that your company suffers from any 3 of the following 8 symptoms, a diagnosis of corporate distress will be most appropriate:
• Increase in medical complaints
• Increase in absenteeism
• Grievances
• Accidents at work
• Interpersonal problems
• Customer Service Problems
• Resistance to change
• Lack of innovation
Corporate stress is experienced by an employee working in a corporate set up. It is one of the most prevalent forms of stress in modern society. Unfortunately, most companies have no idea of how to assess what employee stress costs them in terms of turnover.
Corporate stress has been around for a long time and is here to stay. There are plenty of motivational workshops, which do help but only for short term. A person, who has inherently poor mental and physical strength, will be distressed at the slightest hint of adverse circumstances. It is necessary for any company to recognize the distress of such an employee and provide inner strength to help him/her cope with stress in a much better way. Just as personal success depends on one's personal health, similarly corporate success depends a lot on the health of the corporate, and to maintain a healthy corporate, it is important to eliminate employee stress.
TREATMENT OF CORPORATE STRESS AT HHC
The basic premise of conventional medical treatment is to do away with the cause and thus cure the disease. For e.g. if you are suffering from a cold, you will be given some anti bacterial treatment to kill the virus and treat the cold. However, this principal of treatment does not work in case of stress at all, for unfortunately there is no medication that can "kill" the stressors. So let's say you are under stress due to high targets given to you by the boss, there can be no medication that can help reduce the target.
Thus, to successfully treat stress, medicine needs to adopt a different approach than the conventional one. At HHC we have adopted the principal of treating the individual and not the situation. Fortunately, this is very much possible through the science of homeopathy as practiced at our clinics. Through a detailed case-taking we record the persons reactions to the various stress producing agents in his/ her environment.