LEARNING THE COST OF THE STRESS IN YOUR COMPANY
The stress has important consequences on the cost of the absenteeism and the loss of productivity.
Researches) permit to estimate the cost of the absenteeism and the loss of productivity. Calculate the cost of the absenteeism and the loss of productivity of your employees living personal problems.
Make your estimate
Jacques Laverdière
The life requires a management of your life.
To manage a company it requires to put in activities some dimensions such as the planning, organization, analysis control and the decision-making. It is the sanme for the management of our life. Our life or our company have activities to be managed. These activities are: the work, the family and the leisure activities or what we like. Which attention, which time dedicate we to take charge, to manage thos activities
Has you a balance or an imbalance in these three sections? Do we put too much energy, time in the work, by neglecting our family life and by not setting any time to make what we like? This way of managing our life pulls an imbalance which has consequence to create tension and stress.
To decrease this stress it is necessary to manage our company so that it resumes a balance to decrease this tension. To be made, we apply the activities of management and make the necessary correctives. We can help you to encircle better your level of stress.
The stress is in our current life and he can be an ingredient which can be beneficial and devastating to us. Why it so? Is it possible that certain people are more subject to appropriate the stress and that the others are less? The answer is yes, because the stress can be manage. Are you a good administrator of your life?
The bankrupt of a company is often the cause of a maladministration and it's the same our life, we can be bad administrators of our life.
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Your life is at present difficult, stressful, in imbalance it is necessary to you to take actions to make a balance.
Here is a mean for a planning of the action.
1. Describe the behavior or the situation which you wish to change.
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2. How do you react presently?
3 How would you like to react?
4. Enumerate all the actions and the possible ideas to reac your purpose .
5.Who could prevent you from reaching your purpose?
6. Who could help you to reach your purpose?
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What specific stages do you wish to follow to begin the change? From when?
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To whom will you ask to reach your purpose?
9. How you will be rewarded when you will have reached your purposes?
10. What can be made for sabotage your plan?
You can make a commitment to make these changes by signing this action plan. .
You can contact me
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| 1. The cost of stress in Unite-States is 2 hundred billions. | TRUE FALSE answer |
| 2. According to the company Métropolitaine Life Assurance, in the United States, number of absent employees a day of work is 1 millions. | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
| 3. In 1982, Canadians' poucentage which lived an excessive stress during the last year is 20 % | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
| 4. There are 1300 Quebec workers who die every year of cardiovascular problems connected with the stress. | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
| 5. We estimate a day the cost of the problems relateto the stress in the Canadian companies is 21 millions. | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
| 6. Both main sources of stress are the finance and the family. | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
| 7. Mental problem of health in Quebec for the absenteeism, the decline of productivity, the complaints in the CSST, the expenses of training, replacement and the social costs of disease is 4 billions. | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
| 8. In 1987 the percentage of Canadian workers who felt a problem of mental health in the work was 5 %. | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
| 9. The Canadian Institute of the stress estimates that there is an annual increase of stress from 5 to 7 %. | TRUE FALSEANSWER |
| 10.According to the Canadian Association of mental health, employees' percentage undergoing a exaggerated stress in the work is 25 %. . | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 11. The annual cost of the treatment by worker getting the problems connected with the stress is $1000$. | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
| 12. Today the negative consequences of the stress show themselves more quickly at the individual's than twenty years ago. | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
| 13a. According to one published study in " Objective Prevention ", the compensations for long-term incapacity represented less than 2 % at the beginning of the 1980. The compensations made an impressing jump to reach more 33 % in 1996. | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
| 14a." Chronic Diseases in Canada " reveal that the depression and the fear cost at least 14,4 billion dollars in medical treatments, medicines, loss of productivity and deaths were anticipated in 1998. | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 15a. Health Quebec reveals a considerable increase of prevalencia of psychological distress at the workers, passing from 17,3 % in 1987 to 25,5 % in 1993. | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 16a. In seven years, the number of declaration in the CSST accepted as professional hurts relate to mental health problems pass from 530 to 994, for 1,5 million dollars. | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 17a. In Canada, the demands of invaliditées subjected with diagnosis of anxiety represented only 11 % of the total of the demands in 1985; In 1998, they amounted to 29 % of all the demands. | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 18a. It is about 500,000 Canadians who go out of their work every week for problems of mental health in the work. | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 19a. The social attribualbles costs OF the problems of mental health in the work, rise, in Canada, more than 20 millards a year and, only in Quebec, these costs achieve right by 4 millards of dollars yearly. | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 20a. In the United States, the average working time lost because of the stress increased by 36 % since 1995. We consider that 550 millionS lost workdays yearly, 54 % would be because of the stress. | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 21a.The financial impact of the stress in the work amounts to more than 2000 miliards of dollars a year in the United States. | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 22a. The group-council) AON, evalue at 6 % of the payroll the direct costs of the absenteeism and the incapacity, the indirect costs connected) to the losses of productivity, to the administration and to the staff of replacement make increase the total about 20 %. | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 23a.Between 5 % and 10 % of all the memedications paid by an insurer in 1995 were connected with the mental health, that is approximately 500 millions dollars and to assume the fees of the psychologists a amonunt of 25 million dollars is added. . | TRUEFALSE ANSWER |
| 24.The P.A.E. of the Royal Bank answered 3000 demands of consultations in 6 years. The percentage of consultations related to emotional troubles, family and alcoholism is 78 %. | TRUE FALSE ANSWER |
The center of the leaders of company proposes a formula to calculate the cost of the absenteeism in the company
A) Number of employee( ) X rate of absenteeism
B) Average wage ( ) X 25% Loss of return
toal cost of the absenteeism is : Multiply A X B