on occupational stress experienced by private and public banks employees in Quetta City Nadeem Malik Commerce Department University of Balochistan Pakistan. E-mail: nadeem_malik_uob@yahoo.com. Accepted 18 February, 2011 Stress is a universal element and persons from nearly every walk of life have to face stress. Stress can have negative impacts on both the employee and the organization. Actually, in this research paper it was checked that what the impact occupational stress produced upon employees
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2.1 SECTION A: LEVEL OF WORK 3.2.2 SECTION B: EMOTIONAL ASPECTS 3.2.3 SECTION C: PHYSICAL ASPECTS 3.2.4 SECTION D: SOCIAL / WORKING ENVIRONMENT ASPECTS CHAPTER FOUR 4.0 CONCLUSION 4.1 OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY CHAPTER FIVE 5.0 RECOMMENDATION 4.1 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH REFERENCES APPENDIXES CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Stress is body's way of responding
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46 (2009) 147–153 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Personality and Individual Differences journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/paid Cognitive-behavioural training to change attributional style improves employee well-being, job satisfaction, productivity, and turnover Judith G. Proudfoot a,*, Philip J. Corr b, David E. Guest c, Graham Dunn d a School of Psychiatry and Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Randwick 2031, Australia Department of Psychology, Swansea
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effectively. * It makes an employee feel less anxious or worried about the existing problems BENEFITS * Increase in productivity * Helps in superior decision making * Decrease absenteeism * Improve employee performance Identifying an Employee in Need 1. Job-related Problems - can be generated in many ways from poor working conditions to dissatisfaction with the job itself. 2. Family-related Problems – can have a profound effect on employee job performance. Family crisis
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UNDERSTAND BY STRESS? DISCUSS THE SOURCES OF STRESS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL, GROUP AND ORGANISATIONAL POINTS OF VIEW. Work stress is recognised world-wide as a major challenge to workers health and the healthiness of their organization. Workers who are stressed are also more likely to be unhealthy, poor motivated, less productive and less safe at work. Their organisations are less likely to be successful in a competitive market. Stress can be brought about by pressures at home and at work. Employers
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were credited to Elton Mayo in the year's nineteen twenty-four to nineteen fifty-three. Elton Mayo was from Harvard Business School who sought to find the effects of various conditions focusing on workers' productivity. His study showed that changes in work conditions temporarily increased productivity which is also known as the Hawthorne Effect. Some individuals may form an attitude towards their jobs by taking into account their feelings, beliefs and behavior. All these different factors can affect
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Abstract: Motivation and rewards work hand in hand. In an organization rewarding employees will impact their performance. When an employee is rewarded for a job well done will feel appreciated and will motivate employees to keep up the good work. According to Schermerhorn, Hunt, & Osborn (2008), “Motivation influences work effort, and the key to motivation is the ability to create a work setting that positively supports individual needs and goals. Whether or not a work setting proves motivational
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People react to stress in different ways. Some cope much better than others and suffering fewer of the harmful effects of stress. All of the stress has an impact on the organisation. Both physical and mental illness renders the employee unlit for work, and combine both to lessen the satisfaction obtained from work and reduce job performance and productivity levels. There are various ways that stress symptoms or outcomes are reflected in the workplace. Occupational stress is any discomfort which
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Working Conditions and Employee Performance in the Public Sector (A Case Study of Madina Polyclinic) By Mr. Kley Elikem Pius pius3000@yahoo.com Abstract Management’s new challenge is to create an environment that attracts, retain and motivates its workforce. This study seeks to examine the working conditions on the performance of employees. It is also aimed at identifying the perception of employees about their working conditions. The study employs descriptive and sample survey techniques.
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the reinforcement. For example, fishing, you may catch a fish every time you cast out your line, or you may catch a fish after one cast, then after 5 more, then after 2 more, then after 6 more etc. (Fast to very slow extinction of behaviour) Stress Stress is a general term applied to pressures people feel in life. When pressures
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