Kung Fu Panda 2 - Managing individual stress

Topic: Managing individual stress

Movie title: Kung Fu Panda 2

Movie summary - Po the Panda is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. He must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins; only then will Po be able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed

Concepts - Po's martial arts master informs him that the time has come for the next phase of training: mastering inner peace. However, in order to reach that level, Po has to overcome his own stress about his family memories, which has bad effect on his attitude toward the fight with the Peacock. Since he fights alongside the Furious Five his crisis time, he needs to manage his own stress in order not to affect the team’s duty. As Po is a hardy person, he has the sense of commitment, he can respond to difficulty as a challenge and an opportunity, and finally he has sense of control over one’s life. That’s why the fortune teller believes that he will be the one who beats the Peacock up. However, his problem is somehow conflict with his duty that he needs to face his own problem before he can handle his mission. This is just like work and family stress on employee, which can create the depression on employee. In the movie, Po experience both emotional effects (anger, anxiety, lowered self-esteem) and behavioral effects (poor performance, absenteeism).

Apply to organization behavior, when an individual got stress, he/she can manage it by: planning ahead and practicing good time management, having good personal health management practice, maintaining a positive perspective, balancing work life and personal life, and learning a relaxation technique. Besides, as employee working in a team, their stress can have bad effect on the team’s performance; team should understand and help them to manage it better.