Application of stress management amongst consultants

Stress at the workplace reduces productivity, increases management pressure and makes people ill in many ways, evidence of which is still increasing. Work stress affects the performance of the brain, including functions of work performance. Stress management is a tool to help in managing job stress. Most workers today should learn and implement stress management due to increasing stress at workplace. Therefore, this research is intended to elaborate what are causes and effects of work stress in Interior Designer and Architect as a designer profession, to investigate the application of stress management towards interior designer and architect and also to determine the outcome of stress management. This research methodology conducted, by collecting information and literature review upon work stress and stress management. The primary study for this stress management research is performed of about 38% of 500 samples of questionnaires to interior designer and architect firms, (for 500 samplings) around Klang Valley, Malaysia. Analysis is shown that different people have different causes stress and different method of stress management that should be implemented to reduce stress in designers' work performance as designbased profession. Most of these two consultants' professions are stress by their works. Organizational factors, workload factors job roles factors and targeting dateline are the main factors that contribute work stress in interior designer and architect profession. Work stress would sometimes give bad effects to the performance of designers. There are many techniques of stress management that can be implementing by designers to reduce stress like time off. However, most of designers firms not providing stress management programme for their subordinates. Stress management technique would increase work performance of them.