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Scitus Academics LLC The Economic Crisis and Occupational Stress by Beaumont Symons
Stress studies are becoming more and more attention nowadays, the financial
crisis and recession of 2008 around the world further contributed in
increasing higher levels of stress among employees, particularly in the
corporate context. Occupational stress is increasing due to globalization and
global economic crisis which is affecting almost all countries, all professions
and all categories of workers, as well as families and societies.
This Book, The Economic Crisis and Occupational Stress, is focused on
showing the economic crisis impact on the behavior of employees such as
absenteeism and the missing hours from the schedule. Moreover, overload
work as effect of the employee's fear of being fired led to a worrying change
in their physical and psychological health and to a reduced work satisfaction.
Stress in an organization is very common in present day industries. In many
job situations, high levels of stress are an integral and largely unavoidable
component of the work. The need to cope with complexity, ambiguity, conflict
and competing demands is a part of organizational life among individuals
occupying different positions. Organizations are often unnecessarily stressful
and have a negative impact on individual’s physical and mental health. The
organizations, to make themselves efficient in utilization of resources, have
gone through entire restructuring, layoffs, downsizing, and mergers. This has
resulted in unstable employee-employer relationship which has caused a
great deal of stress among employees. There is no such thing as a stress-free
job in the world. Many organizations want to reduce and prevent the
employee stress because they observe that it is a major drain on corporate
productivity. Nobody is free from stress and it is not harmful always. In small
quantities, stress is good; it can motivate us and help us to become more
productive, but too much stress or a strong response to stress can be harmful.
In this book all experiences of jobs are discussed which affects human minds
and bodies. The book also discusses the risk management at workplace,
prevention of stress and instructions to stress management. A perceptive and
exhaustive account of how the economic crisis has outspread globally is
presented and the reflective psychological impact that this recession has had
on the workplace examined.
This Book will be of important for students and researchers in the social
sciences, organizational and social psychologists and practitioners of
occupational health.