A STUDY TO DETERMINE FOUR MAJOR JOB ISSUES THAT CAN CREATE AN IMBALANCE BETWEEN WORK AND LIFE by Melissa Cadet GEORGE FRUNZI, PhD, Committee Member A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Masters of Business Administration Strayer University Abstract In organizations and on the home front, the challenge of work/life balance is rising to the top of many employers ‘and employees’ consciousness. In today’s fast-paced society,
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professionals work under many conditions that make them susceptible to experiencing burnout. This paper will define burnout and discuss some of the individual, organizational, and cultural support factors that cause human service professionals to experience burnout (Lewis, 2007). Various individual, job role, and organizational methods employed to prevent burnout will also be addressed (Lewis, 2007). Deniece will discuss how she reacts and respond to personal and work-related stress and give insight
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Effect of Job Stress and Job Satisfaction on Performance: An Empirical Study Rashmi Shahu, S.V. Gole Department of Management Technology RKN Engineering College Nagpur, India (rashmishahu@yahoo.co.uk) (golesv@rknec.edu) Volume 2, Number 3 September 2008, pp. 237-246 Occupational stress is commonly acknowledged to be a critical issue for managers of private manufacturing companies. This study attempts to fill part of this void in literature by examining the relationship between job stress,
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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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Stores, Inc. is a large organization with many stores, departments, and employees. They have a quick employee turnover rate and high goal setting. They expect their employees to reach sales goals in set periods of time which causes stress amongst the ranks. Each department in a store is accountable to one or more managers, those managers have a floor manager and so on. Although it is tough to work for Macy’s, the goals they set have allowed them to thrive in the competitive department store world
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Effects of employee’s satisfaction and commitment Name Institution Professor Date Abstract Employee commitment is an active way of improving the organizational satisfaction. In this article employee
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wellness program into the company practice. The extent of how much a program is applied depends greatly on how much a company can and is willing to spend, and how committed they are to help the individual employee have a healthy lifestyle. With a program properly put into practice, both the employee and the employer will see immense benefits. Implementing a Health and Wellness program can be simple for employers who are wishing to reduce health care costs and decrease absenteeism. This can be done
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supervisor is in charge of making sure that work gets done, they do not do any of the operative work. Their main focus is to achieve the company's goals in production. As a supervisor, one has to encourage workers to accomplish their objectives in a positive way; they must also have workers that want to be "members of a work unit to contribute positively towards accomplishing the organizations goals and objective’s" (Rue & Byars, 2004). A supervisor's work is categorized into five areas: planning,
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Course: HRM 3470 - Recruitment, Selection, and Performance Appraisal of Personnel Instructor: Dr. Souha R. Ezzedeen Date of Submission: Thursday, November 25, 2010 An emerging health and safety issue in today’s organizations which has detrimental effects on employees as well as employers is workplace violence. This type of violence can be physical or verbal assault. Healthcare organizations recognize that there is a potential for four types of violence. The most common of these four types is client
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environment which all of the employees can work together to accomplish the goals of the organization. This Knowledge is also used, in a variety of ways to help make organizations be more effective. Effective organizations are typically more productive, often provide higher-quality services to customers and are usually more financially successful than less effective organizations (Jex & Britt, 2008). Organizational psychologist study many different aspects about the work environment. Organizational psychologists
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