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Please answer one of the two following topics in your answer: A: What are the major challenges facing organizations today?  Using the information presented in Chapter 1, how can a working knowledge of Organizational Behavior help a manager or leader to meet these challenges?  Why is it important to study organizational behavior at the individual, teams or groups, and organizational levels? OR B: Chapter 3 deals with emotions and stress.  Why should organizations be concerned with occupational stress?  What can organizations do to reduce workplace stress, and what can they do to help employees cope with it?  What effect does stress have on performance?  Is there such a thing as too little stress?

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Derek Dabish 

workplace stress

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Organizations should always be concerned with workplace stress as it can turn into distress.  According to Corporate Wellness Magazine, “many people face significant stress in the workplace that it outweighs any possible benefits and even poses a threat to their health”.   Stress-related to work increases the changes of various health problems including diabetes, chronic back pain, and irritable bowel syndrome.  It can also add to mental health issues including anxiety, depression, and drug use.

“Distress is characterized by high levels of stressors that have destructive and negative effects on effort and performance” (Neck et al, 207. Page 82).  Distress can lower morale, impact workplace behavior, and ultimately have an adverse effect on employee physical and mental health.   All of the potential issues associated with workplace stress impact healthcare costs and the use of sick time/FMLA. 

In order to reduce the amount of work-related stress it is important for management to identify and prevent potential added stress to their team.  Organizations can help reduce workplace stress by using the coping techniques discussed in chapter three, including “problem-focused coping, which aims at reducing or eliminating stressors by attempting to understand the problem, and seeking practical ways in which to resolve it; and emotion-focused coping, which is an effort to try to change a person’s emotional reaction to a stressor by using positive language and distracting technique” (Neck et al, 207. Page 78).  Companies can also use methods and strategies such as the ones Johnson and Johnson implemented with their wellness program, which was proved beneficial as they saved over $250 million in healthcare costs in a ten-year span.

I personally believe that there is no such thing as too little stress in the workplace.  In fact, companies can help employees deal with unnecessary workplace stress by implementing various new methods we are seeing used today with companies like Google, Quicken loans, United shore, Apple, etc. These companies try to make the work environment a “cool place” to work by adding neat break rooms, game rooms, cafe’s, gyms, and other things to help employees take breaks at work and help them improve work-life balances.  At the end of the day, it is crucial to manage stress in the workplace as it has an adverse effect on the health and productivity of the team and ultimately employee output.

 

 

Works Cited

 

https://www.corporatewellnessmagazine.com/article/workplace-stress-silent-killer-employee-health-productivity

 

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Thelma Moulds 

Chapter 3 Occupational Stress

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Organizations should be concerned with occupational stress is because it affects the behavior of the people working in the organization. This can lead to poor health and absenteeism (Neck, 2017). These things are important because if the employees’ health suffers or they have not enough people in the work force than the product doesn’t go out, people aren’t being innovative, customer service lacks, and the corporation suffers. People also want to feel that they are making a difference and have some importance. When they are stressed out, they may question their importance and wonder why they are working there. This will lead to poor job performance and overall the corporation suffers.

 Things organizations can do to reduce workplace stress is make sure their job demands aren’t overbearing. This can cause challenge stressors and will affect the employee’s motivation and performance. Another thing the organization can do is make sure the environment is not too ambiguous for the employee because this causes hindrance stressors and also affects the employee’s motivation. Managers can help with coping mechanisms to reduce the stress as well. There are two types of coping: problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping. Problem focused coping aims at reducing or eliminating stress by attempting to understand the problem and seeking practical ways to resolve it. Emotion-focused coping is an effort to change a person’s emotional reaction to the stress by using positive language and distracting techniques (Neck, 2017). According to the Communications Workers of America companies should also work on the conditions at the organization. There are two job characteristics that affect the physical and emotional well-being of employees. Job control determines how much or how little control a worker has over her/his job. It can be defined in terms of one's ability to make decisions about how work is done and the ability to use a range of skills on the job. Job demand determines how much or how little production or productivity pressures there are on the worker and the quality of the physical work environment. These two things can affect the performance and attitudes in the office.

There is such a thing as too little stress. This means the employees aren’t being challenged or growing. When they are completely comfortable and just going with the motions than this can create boredom and laziness in the job. There is a balance with any person that gives them enough stress that motivates them but doesn’t burn them out. Eustress is a moderate level of stress that has constructive and positive effects on effort and performance (Neck, 2017). This is when people are innovative and come up with wonderful things for the corporation. If you never challenge people than they will never know what they are capable of. Lepine, Podsakoff, and Lepine say that, “Challenge stressors help people grow and become more competent” (quick, 2016). This helps the corporation change. Change is important because the world is always changing and it’s important for companies to grow with their consumers.

Works Cited:

Occupational Stress and the Workplace (2017). In Communications Workers of America. Retrieved from  https://cwa-union.org/national-issues/health-and-safety/health-and-safety-fact-sheets/occupational-stress-and-workplace

Quick, J., & Henderson, D. (2016, April 29). Occupational Stress: Preventing Suffering, Enhancing Wellbeing. In U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4881084/

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