Workplace stress
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- Created on: 01-06-13 17:23
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- Workplace Stress
- Johansson
- Swedish saw mill, increased workload/ responsibility causes stress
- Therefore stress related illness
- 14 Finishers, high workload, no time to socialise ,high responsibility- there productivity determined workforces wages = high stress
- Measured adrenaline/ noradrenaline on work and rest days
- Kept records of absenteeism
- They found finishers were more stressed even on rest days and more absenteeism
- Showing workload and responsibility causes stress and stress related illness
- Small sample, too many external factors , ethnocentric, same place for both groups
- They found finishers were more stressed even on rest days and more absenteeism
- Kept records of absenteeism
- Measured adrenaline/ noradrenaline on work and rest days
- 10 cleaners = low stress
- Swedish saw mill, increased workload/ responsibility causes stress
- Marmot
- lower job control = stress.... therefore stress related illness
- 7'000 civil servants in a year 5yr longitudinal study
- High grade ( high control ) = low stress
- Low grade ( low control ) = high stress
- 2x more likely to get CHD
- Therefore low control = stress illness due to immune suppression
- Large sample, ecological validity, can't control all variables, ethnocentric
- Therefore low control = stress illness due to immune suppression
- 2x more likely to get CHD
- 7'000 civil servants in a year 5yr longitudinal study
- lower job control = stress.... therefore stress related illness
- Factors which cause stress
- High workload
- High responsbility
- Role ambiguity
- Physical environment
- Johansson
- Showing workload and responsibility causes stress and stress related illness
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