NLP for stress mitigation in employees

Stress management in the workplace is a reality that most of us have to face for one reason or another and coping with it is the key to a long-term career success. Some careers are more stressful than others. The main causes of workplace stress appear to be linked to deficiencies in the management and organization of work. Stress and culture are not only predominantly seen in the industry but are visual even in the service sector. This study directs itself to the study of organization culture and stress in an educational institute. It is normally presumed that the teaching profession is less stressful. With the changing demands in the educational paradigm and expectations from the stakeholders, the study and the findings thereof presented in this paper have significant importance in redefining the premises of the education sector from knowledge management perspective. Having observed that employees do demonstrate stress at different strata of hierarchy in an organization for different Organizational Role Stress (ORS) parameters, an effort is made in this work for stress mitigation using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) intervention in counseling employees. NLP describes the fundamental dynamics between mind (neuro) and language (linguistic) and how their interplay affects our body and behavior (programming). Techniques of NLP such as Rapport, Anchoring, Swish, Reframing Inter - personal Communication and Persuasion are very useful towards stress management. In this paper, two groups of employees are counseled with and with out NLP intervention. Statistical analysis has been carried out to compare the efficacy of NLP intervention and it is observed that NLP intervention do mitigate employee's stress.