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Week 5_Stress and WLB_3db6d1d52686ab8af23c13d126f6f2ea
life Balance
Chapter Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter you should be able to:
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Mental Health Issues at Work
• Stress Defined
– A person’s adaptive response to a stimulus that places
excessive psychological or physical demands on that
person
• The Stress Process (Selye)
– General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
• Identifies three stages of response to a stressor: alarm,
resistance, exhaustion
• Sources of stress:
– Eustress: pleasurable stress accompanying positive events
– Distress: unpleasant stress accompanying negative events
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FIGURE 7.1 The General Adaptation Syndrome
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Individual Differences and Stress
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Causes and Consequences of Stress
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FIGURE 7.2
Causes and
Consequences
of Stress
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Organizational Stressors: The Workplace
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Organizational Stressors: Role Demands
• Role
– A set of expected behaviors associated with a
particular position in a group or organization.
• Role Stress
– Role ambiguity due to unclear roles
– Role conflict due to:
• Interrole conflict
• Intrarole conflict
• Intersender conflict
– Role overload due to role expectations exceeding an
individual’s capabilities
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Table 7.1 Most and Least Stressful Jobs
Top Most Stressful Jobs Top Least Stressful Jobs
1. Surgeon 1. Actuary
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What personal privacy issues for workers could arise from the use of increasingly pervasive
and “always-on” communication networks by employers?
Right to disconnect: Employees should have the right to disconnect from work communication channels
outside of working hours. This helps maintain a healthy work-life balance
FIGURE 7.3 Workload, Stress, and Performance
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External Causes of Stress
• Life Stressors
– Events that take place outside the organization
•Life change
– Any meaningful change in a person’s personal or work situation
•Life trauma
– Any upheaval in an individual’s life that alters his or her attitudes,
emotions or behaviors
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Table 7.2 Life Changes and Life Change Units
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Consequences of Stress
• Individual • Organizational
Consequences Consequences
– Behavioral – Performance
– Psychological – Withdrawal
– Medical – Attitudes
– Burnout
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FIGURE 7.4 Individual and Organizational Coping Strategies
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Managing Stress in the Workplace:
Individual Coping Strategies
Exercise
Time
Relaxation
Management
Role Support
Management Groups
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Managing Stress in the Workplace (cont’d)
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Work-Life Linkages
• Fundamental Work-Life Relationships
– Interrelationships between a person’s work life and
personal life
• Balancing Work-Life Linkages
– Importance of long-term versus
short-term perspectives
– Significance of evaluating tradeoffs between values
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKjgta8RDeQ
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Organizational Behavior in Action
• After reading the chapter:
– Which stressors are typical of college students?
– Which of these sources of stress are bad for students?
Which are beneficial?
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