Handling the Stress

Abstract

Just as a corporate crisis is about people’s perceptions rather than reality, so the individual stress resulting from a situation very much depends on how an individual perceives it. ‘One man’s meat is another man’s poison.’ When attempting to prepare companies for a crisis we need to ensure that the managers involved see the crisis as ‘meat’, turning it into an opportunity.

‘A real measure of a man is not where he stands at moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at moments of challenge and controversy.’

Martin Luther King

Dr Cheryl J. Travers is a leading expert and author on stress psychology. She lectures in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at The Business School, Loughborough University.