“One word is enough to a wise man.” This saying oftentimes is an expression commonly uttered by superiors to induce subordinates when they want certain tasks done at once. However there are superiors who could not initiate pressure even when they wanted things accomplished. At a certain circumstances however, it is advantageous to put pressure to employees. .

A study revealed that without the application of stress, people will not exert effort to reach their full potential. A superior should be able to do pre-evaluation using the available subordinate’s personal record to determine the psychological make-up of the person specially its tolerance level to stress when given certain tasks with deadlines. There is an optimal level of stress when properly applied to an individual that would result to favorable performance. The pressure can be put to use when the superior knows previously what kind of stress can yield productivity and which kind can be likewise damaging.

As an advice, superiors must not eliminate stress, but keep it only at a healthy and productive level. For most people, stresses such as accountability for quality of work and for some personal financial management have positive effect and they are not signs of weakness. Battling and overcoming them produces a feeling of pride, accomplishment and a positive experience.

A subordinate when receiving insufficient feedback from superiors, or being given inadequate information to complete a task would have a negative reaction on the pressure to accomplish the task. Using enough pressure to improve productivity is a matter of eliminating the negatives.

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