Management's Role for Reducing Employee Stress.
Abstract
This literature review on job related stress is based on several sets of findings from behavioral and medical research. Support is offered for the premise that job related factors are a primary cause of stress induced illness among people in today's work force. Whether or not a job actually provokes stress depends a great deal on how a person perceives the situation. This perception in turn is influenced by a variety of individual differences in people and by differences in the work environment. Medical researchers now believe that the chemical stress reaction within the human body is the most important causative factor in contemporary health breakdowns. The economic costs of stress in terms of health care in 1980 was on in every 14 dollars. Management is now realizing the related personnel costs associated with absenteeism, turnover, premature retirement, serious illness, alcoholism, and death will become an even bigger problem in the future. Authors generally agree that the responsibility for reducing employee stress belongs to management. However, since there is no single cause or effect of stress, a simple solution to correct the problem does not exist. Therefore, a combination of approaches need to be established to help people and organizations deal effectively with stress in the work force. The review concludes with some discussion and recommendations to management for helping employees cope productively with job related stress.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADA127126
Entities
People
- Clifford M. Purington Jr