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Stress in the workplace will become the epidemic of the 21st century.


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Stress in the workplace will become the epidemic of the 21st century.

... Stress in the workplace will become the epidemic of the 21st century I will be exploring some of the factors that are known to cause stress in the workplace. Some of these factors are control, responsibility, overcrowding, temperature, pollution, noise and predictability. It has been found that these stress factors can make a worker stressed and therefore ill. The first factor I will explore is control which is closely linked with predictability. In a study Glass et al. (1969) arranged for participants (who were all females), to listen to random noise while completing puzzles. There were two conditions, one where a button was given, to control the random noise, and one where there was no control over the noise. Participants who were given control were significantly more persistent than those without the control. In Cohen et al.'s (1991) research on stress and the common cold those participants who felt that

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