Boost Your Resilience Mitigating Techno Stress

About the course

Technostress is defined as the stress people experience when using Digital Technologies. Six key areas of work design will be considered: demands, Control, Support, Relationships, Role, and Change. The course is designed to encourage participants to explore possibilities for integrating technostress mitigation initiatives into their business strategy, supporting them with theoretical and practical understanding to apply them.

Completing this course will equip you to:

Identify and understand the role of techno stressors in the well-being of employees
Identify key areas of work design and how these should be taken into consideration in developing Stress Management Standards
Discuss the importance and benefits of implementing Stress Management Standards for technostress in organisations
Develop an action plan to strategically mitigate technostress management in the business strategy and goals using the knowledge and skills acquired through the course

Managers of SMEs
HR managers
Occupational Health and Safety Representatives
Union Representatives
People who want to pursue a career in OH&S

Course content

Icebreaker activity

Unit 1.1 Technostress definition
Unit 1.2 The challenge of Work-Related Stress (WRS)
Unit 1.3 Why tackle Technostress?
Unit 1.4 Theoretical models of Technostress

Unit 2.1.1 Techno stressors
Activity
Unit 2.1.2 The consequences of techno-stressors
Unit 2.2 How to measure technostress

Unit 3.1 Work design
Unit 3.2 Key areas of work design

Unit 4.1 Applying technostress mitigation strategies in an organization

Unit 5.1 The 5 steps risk assessment process
Unit 5.2: Preparing the organization
Unit 5.3: Identify the risk factors
Unit 5.4: Who can be harmed and how
Unit 5.5: Evaluate the risks
Unit 5.6: Record your findings
Unit 5.7: Monitor and review

Unit 6.1. Technostress and well-being – a summary
Unit 6.2 Technostress and employees’ engagement

Tackling technostress using the Management Standards approach

Final Quiz

Instructors

7 courses
13 students
Michail Delagrammatikas
Michail Delagrammatikas is a Chemical Engineer, MEng, who has received his diploma from the School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens).
He has been working in CRETHIDEV since 2018 as a Project Manager and Researcher in different educational, raising awareness, research, and piloting projects, including Erasmus+ CBHE, CB VET, Cooperation Partnership, and CoVE projects. Works mainly on projects related to the Green Transition, Digital Education, Sustainability, and Entrepreneurship.
MG
1 courses
1 students
Maria Giannacourou
NN
7 courses
13 students
Nikolaos Nikolaou
Mr. Nikolaos Nikolaou has studied at bachelor and master's level Political Science & International Economic Relations. He has wide working experience. Particularly, he worked for 6 year in the financial-insurance sector as Digital Marketing Officer. Now he works as EU-funded programs Manager specializing to the Dissemination & Marketing Activities. What is more, he holds professional certificates in digital marketing from the Leeds University (UK) and the Google Academy.
ET
7 courses
13 students
Emi Tsakalou
LT
7 courses
13 students
Lina Tsakalou

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