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Organizational Change and Employee Stress

Management Science, 2011
This article analyzes the relationship between organizational change and employee health. It illuminates the potentially negative outcomes of change at the level of the employee. In addition, it relates to the ongoing debate over how employees react to and respond to organizational change. I hypothesize that change increases the risk of negative stress,
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A Measure of Chronic Organizational Stress

Psychological Reports, 1986
The Stress at Work Scale, which was derived from an earlier measure developed by Adams (1980), was tested for internal consistency, reliability, and convergent validity. Subjects were 202 full-time employed men and women. Results indicate it is useful for research.
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Managerial/Organizational Stress

Health Care Management Review, 1980
Stress is a factor built into complex organizations and people are psychologically vulnerable to its power. It cannot be eliminated but must be managed lest its costly, counterproductive results remain unchecked.
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Organizational stress and stress management programs

International Journal of Stress Management, 1994
There is a growing awareness of how stress adversely affects organizational efficiency. The implementation of stress management programs to counteract this problem has been slow. This study examined such programs in companies who claimed that they were active and successful in stress management for their employees.
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Organizational culture, stress, and stress management

Work & Stress, 1991
(1991). Organizational culture, stress, and stress management. Work & Stress: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
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The organizational stress measure: an integrated methodology for assessing job-stress and targeting organizational interventions

Health Services Management Research, 2012
This paper briefly describes the OSM (Organizational Stress Measure) which was developed over a decade ago and has evolved to become a well-established practical method not only for assessing wellbeing at work but also as a cost-effective strategy to tackle workplace stress.
Peter, Spurgeon, Patti, Mazelan, Fred, Barwell   +2 more
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Managing organizational stress: A field experiment.

Journal of Applied Psychology, 1982
Although the deleterious effects of work-related stress on employee well-being and organizational effectiveness have received wide attention in the literature, few, if any, controlled experiments have been attempted to assess the effects of stress reduction interventions.
Daniel C. Ganster, Bronston T. Mayes, Wesley E. Sime, Gerald D. Tharp   +3 more
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Perceptions of organizational change: A stress and coping perspective.

Journal of Applied Psychology, 2006
Few organizational change studies identify the aspects of change that are salient to individuals and that influence well-being. The authors identified three distinct change characteristics: the frequency, impact and planning of change. R. S. Lazarus and S.
Rafferty, Alannah, Griffin, Mark
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Theories of Organizational Stress

1998
Abstract During the past two decades, the nature of work has changed dramatically, as more and more organizations downsize, outsource and move toward short-term contracts, part-time working and teleworking. The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen accordingly in terms of increased ...
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Stress: The legal and organizational implications

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 1989
Evolving legal trends, as well as court cases in which stress related to employment situations led to liability for the employer, were reviewed and summarized. These results were integrated with those in current empirical stress research in order to identify potential areas of concern for managers.
Debra Hollis, Jane Goodson
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