COMMERCE 2BC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Workplace Politics, Stressor, The Employer
19 Oct 2020
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Stress: an environmental event that can produce stress, an internal feeling, health related and personal consequences, more serious outcomes of stress, unpleasant physical or emotional feeling, happens when our resources are overtaxed. Some physiological signs (ie. sweating: can be internal traits, like our abilities, can be our relationships, happens because of an environmental stressor. Hindrance stressors: undesirable stressors that just get in the way of you achieving your goals. Job insecurity: role stressors (ie. you report to two bosses and they tell you two different thigns to do) (can be solved with job design, undertraining, being unprepared for your work, bullying. Job demands that can be viewed as possible to overcome. Job scope: responsibility, may have positive outcomes, if, they are not excessively taxing (cannot be unachievable, the person in question has sufficient ability, self efficacy and autonomy, can give the person a sense of achievement. Primary intervention: protecting people from being exposed to stressors in the first place.
