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Managing job stress

Personnel Review, 1995
Starts from the premisses that stress at work is a significant and costly problem, and that the challenge for companies is to manage work stress in order to reduce health‐care costs and improve productivity. Suggests that this challenge can be met by greater collaboration among company departments, bringing expertise from different areas to bear on the
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Job Satisfaction and Stress among Neonatologists

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1984
Neonatology is reputed to be a stressful pediatric subspecialty. To quantify objectively this stress and to assess the factors involved, a questionnaire was mailed to neonatologists in the northeastern United States. Ninety-six (70%) replied. A five-point scale was used to determine the level of satisfaction with neonatology as a career and the level ...
T A, Clarke, W M, Maniscalco, S, Taylor-Brown, K J, Roghmann, D L, Shapiro, C, Hannon-Johnson   +5 more
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Job design and job stress in office workers

Ergonomics, 1993
A model to look at various job components that affect individual well-being and health was developed drawing from the job design and job stress literature. Briefly stated, the model proposes job control to be a primary causal determinant of the stress outcomes.
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Occupational Stresses and Job Satisfaction

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1976
Summary In a test of the hypothesis that some occupational stresses are desirable and some are not, the relationship between 14 sources of occupational stress and 12 aspects of job satisfaction was studied in 228 males, employed full-time and members of one of three professional associations: professional engineers, industrial accountants, or chartered
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Job Stress and Productivity Increase

WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2012
Abstract This paper examines mental and physical pressures that workers bear at work. The authors discuss how onthe-job stress affects a person’s capabilities and productivity, and how such pressures lend to higher incidences of accidents at work. The paper also discuses methods of reducing job-related stress and increasing productivity.
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Job Structures, Job Stress, and Mental Health

2011
In this chapter, we discuss the substantial volume of research that connects the characteristics of jobs to stress and to stress-related health outcomes. Most of this research is conducted at the individual level and focuses on the adverse psychological consequences of the interaction of the individual worker with characteristics of her/his job.
Mark Tausig, Rudy Fenwick
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Job stress and health.

1999
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Blanc, P.M., Jonge, J. de, Schaufeli, W.B.   +2 more
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Self‐care and Job Stress

Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 1987
This qualitative field research explored and described self‐care strategies of hospital‐based nurses. Data were derived from participant observation in 4 clinical areas and from in‐depth interviews with 20 nurses. The nurses relied on the following self‐care strategies: asserting, cultivating, catharsis and withdrawing.
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Job stress interventions.

1995
Reported job stress in the US workforce is on the increase. Among the causes are downsizing, reorganisation and changing technology. This collection of empirical studies presents models for job stress intervention at both the individual level and at the organisational and policy level.
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Job Stress

AAOHN journal : official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, 1994
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