Work Place Stress
- Created by: Jessica Gibbs
- Created on: 05-05-13 13:58
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- Work Place Stress
- Sources: physical environment (space, noise, temp,etc), work overload, lack of control, role ambiguity (work roles undefined)
- Research studies: Karasek (1979), Marmot et al (1991 & 1997), Johansson et al (1978) and Schaubroeck (2001)
- Evaluation
- Extraneous variables - e.g. personality of participants can't be changed - type A personalities are attrached to stressful jobs
- Job control - In Karasek's model high control jobs are said to be less stressful however Schaubroeck found that some employees that have high control jobs have a high level of work place stress as they lack the ability to handle it
- Individuals differences - research shows that other cultures show a similar relationship between lack of control & stress related illnesses.
- However, not all the workers with 'stressful' jobs became ill. These individual differences are important in stress research
- Extraneous variables - e.g. personality of participants can't be changed - type A personalities are attrached to stressful jobs
- However, not all the workers with 'stressful' jobs became ill. These individual differences are important in stress research
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