Estimates of Presenteeism are approximately accounted for three-quarters of the nation’s loss in productivity and equates to $3,156 per employee per year compared to $2,500 per employee per year. The effects show that companies are more focused on absenteeism and ignoring presenteeism (Younossi, Stepanova, Henry, Younossi, Weinstein, Nader & Hunt, 2016). Another concern for working adults is sleep deprivation, chronic
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Substance Abuse Just like many disease or mental illness, substance abuse does not discriminate. Substance abuse can result from sociocultural, due to stress of environmental factors, social economics and unemployment’s. The use of substance abuse whether it is alcohol, prescription drugs, or other method it is a stress reliever for the abuser, helping them escape. The addiction to substance abuse makes it hard to function and work in the real world because the abuser becomes dependent and develop
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potential threats to remaining employees: trust, job satisfaction, motivation, and stress. The paper provides several suggestions for mitigating these impacts, including communication to retain trust, acting ethically to ensure satisfied employees, seeking an understanding of employee perspectives to build employee motivation, and providing good planning along with training and development to reduce employee stress. INTRODUCTION Globalization provides organizations with more options than ever before
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Job sAtisfAction, Productivity, MotivAtion, stress levels with flextiMe Kalpana solanki* Abstract It has been observed that the concept of flextime is very useful but it has not been understood and utilized by many organizations till date in UAE. The flextime concept is suitable to those employees who are willing to work in flexible work shifts with suitable work timings .This research is focused on finding out a relationship between flextime and employee productivity, job satisfaction, work productivity
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The Impact of Stress on Jobs and the Workplace Prepared for: Mr. Glenn Pace Webster University Truman Education Center ------------------------------------------------- Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri ------------------------------------------------- Prepared By: Mrs. Betty Downing 5 March 2012 Introduction: There is an overwhelming concern in today’s society about stress on the job and in the workplace and how that will carry over to a person’s home life. Stress has taken an immense
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Open University of Malaysia WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE A study submitted to Project Management Department in Saudi Aramco BY Nowier Mohammed Al-Anzi Open University of Malaysia 2009 i Open University of Malaysia WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE A study submitted to Project Management Department in Saudi Aramco Nowier Mohammed Al-Anzi 51060418 Project Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement
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study: We are the student of BBA program in East West University, as a part of ‘classroom teaching’ of course ‘Organizational Behavior’, sec-5, has been highly encouraged to prepare a term paper on the topic – “Type A Type A Personality and Occupation Stress” – A study on United Commercial Bank Ltd (UCBL)’’. Organizational behavior is a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structures have on behavior within an organization. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes
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Emerging Trends for Stress Management Globally: - The significance of stress management is highlighted nowadays by the employers to cope with and reduce stress through practical guidelines. Positive relationship has been shown by studies between incentives and performance as both are related with satisfaction of employees. However, every time the case is not same non-monetary measures like career advancement, prestige, and public recognition can also increase productivity. Today stress management is central
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Bullying in the Workplace Many people relate bullying to their earlier days in school and still relate bullying to the typical “school yard” bully that seemed to terrorize the weakest children on the playground. Times have changed but the bully still lives and more than likely still torments its victims. Bullying in itself is a mistreatment of one or more persons by another individual or in some cases, a group of people. It is still present in today’s schools and it continues to linger around
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Employee Retention PSY 435 University of Phoenix May 4, 2014 Employee retention is an essential part of any company. Lack of employees is essentially, an incomplete business. When a business has issues with employee retention, they are typically left with individuals who are not cut out for the job and lack any experience. Not only that, but, high turn over costs business owners time, as well as, productivity. For an organization to continue running properly they must implement programs that
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