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“Stress in the workplace will become the epidemic of the 21st century.” Outline and evaluate the contribution of two or more factors to stress in the workplace.
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"Stress in the workplace will become the epidemic of the 21st century." Outline and evaluate the contribution of two or more factors to stress in the workplace. A workplace stressor is some aspect of the working environment that we experience as stressful and which causes a stress reaction in our body. There are two types of workplace stressors. Physical stressors such as noise, length of working day etc and psychosocial stressors such as relationships with co-workers, organisation if work and role responsibility. Each of these has the potential to cause stress but this depends on other factors like the individual's ability to cope and available social support. Marmot et al (1997) sought to test the job strain model. This model proposes that the workplace creates stress and illness in two ways high demand and low control. Marmot et al suggested that this could be tested in the context of civil service employees where...
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