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This book examines stress in organizational contexts. The authors review the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its associated problems. One chapter is devoted to examining an extreme form of occupational stress--burnout, which has been found to have severe consequences for individuals and their organizations. The book closes with a discussion of scenarios for jobs and work in the new millennium, and the potential sources of stress that these scenarios may generate.
Assessing Job-Related Strains
Assessing Job-Related Strains
In this chapter, we discuss the assessment of strain—that is, the individual's physical, psychological, and behavioral responses to stressors—and we review the large array of measures that have been used to capture workplace strains. As noted in Chapter 1, strain may be conceptualized as a ...
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