Occupational Stress and its Effects on Organizational Communication
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Occupational Stress and its Effects on Organizational Communication By: Remon Hanna For: Dr. Isaac Smith Course: PSY 209 Due Date: March 25th, 2003 Occupational Stress and its Effects on Organizational Communication The nature of work is changing at whirlwind speeds. Perhaps now, more than ever before, job stress poses a threat to the health of workers. Stress has long been associated with the onset of significant physical and mental health problems. Stress began to be implicated in areas beyond the bounds of physical and mental health as far back as the 1980s. In the organizational environment, stress has been implicated in the deterioration of performance efficiency by both managers and subordinates. When performance efficiency suffers the quality of the overall organizational environment and productivity deteriorates. A deterioration of the organizational environment is accompanied by deterioration in organizational communication (Gilberg, 1993). The primary sources of occupational stress within an organization originate from four...

