This study describes the stress audit process and how it can be effectively linked with stress management workshop development and delivery. Specifically, four stress audits and four workshops based on them were conducted within an organization. Reactions indicated that the stress audit is a valuable tool for trainers.In today' s ever-increasing push to do more with less, employees are reporting more on-the-job stress than ever before (Cartwright & Cooper, 1997). While stress management workshops have been one of the tools in many trainers' portfolios, the general nature and outcome-based approaches of many of the workshops have left some organizational personnel skeptical regarding stress management workshop utility. The purpose of this study is to describe a process that will make stress management workshops better tailored to the specific needs of attendees. The focus of the workshop exercises used in this study were on (1) reduction of the potential stressors themselves and (2) individuals' perceptions of potential stressors. Figure 1 is the stress model that demonstrates how we described the stress process to our clients. It indicates that potential stressors are subsequently perceived by the individual, and that some may be more stressful to some individuals than to others. Thus, the response to the potential stressor is idiosyncratic. Finally, if the potential stressors become stressful to the individual, then various well-documented outcomes are likely to occur.The purpose of stress management workshops is to address occupational stress through interactive exercises in a small group setting. The majority of coping strategies focus on dealing with the outcomes of stress (such as providing opportunities to learn relaxation techniques, exercise routines, and

Theoretically, evidence challenges the construct validity of the self-consciousness scales used by Jawahar and Stone. The demand characteristics introduced by the experimental procedures called into question the validity of their findings. Moreover, the statistically significant results for both measures of rating leniency and accuracy as operationalized was likely an artifact of using a leniency measure which shares considerable overlapping variance with the accuracy measure. Although self-consciousness as a moderator has theoretical interest, further work is needed to provide evidence for self-consciousness as a moderator variable in the rating process. In short, we are skeptical of the findings and share the authors' caveat in interpreting the results.

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