Analyzing the Impact of Job Stress on Employee Wellbeing

Running head: ANALYTICAL ESSAY
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ANALYTICAL ESSAY1
Introduction
In the 19th century, rapid growth in the workplace has significantly impacted on the health
and wellbeing of the employees. Moen et al. (2016) opined that rapid changes in organizational
work culture as well as structural pattern, intensifying the work culture has become highly
challenging. It cannot be denied that employee is the vital component in every organization.
Excessive workload, as well as continuous challenge for enhancing the acceptability skills for
dealing with the changing business environment, has become highly challenging for the
employees, which is creating job stress.
On the other hand Bliese, Edwards and Sonnentag (2017) opined that, it is true that
intensified work culture is increasing stress as well as job dissatisfaction among the employees.
The purpose of this study is to critically analyze the impact of job stress and its negative impact
on employee wellbeing. By continuing this, an argument based on the interrelationship between
employee wellbeing and job satisfaction has been highlighted. In the end of this study,
recommendations have been provided that can significantly prevent such situations.
Discussion
In the new HR operations, increasing job stress has become an important concern for HR
professionals (Bakker and Demerouti 2018). Workplace stress can harmfully response to the
human psychology. In response to this, it can be said that initiatives towards controlling over the
increasing market demand are leading excessive workload on the employees, which is creating a
negative impact on maintaining the work-life balance of the employees. By supporting this
Bliese, Edwards and Sonnentag (2017) stated that workplace stress not only impacts on the
health of employees but also it negatively influence organizational productivity.

ANALYTICAL ESSAY2
A healthy job indicates the job role in which based on the abilities of individuals, the job
pressure is being given by the management. Dall’Ora et al. (2016) opined that it can be said that
the healthy work is about maintaining the balance between, mental, physical and wellbeing of the
employees. In the continuous assessment of health risk of the employees in the workplace, it has
been identified that work-related stress can be created based on the mental and physical pressure.
It is true that, due to the high demand for work as well as changing workplace culture, these
kinds of stress issues get influenced, which negatively impacts on the job satisfaction process in
an organization. Work circumstances in the organization can lead to the occurrence of stress that
promotes less support from the management towards its employees (LePine et al. 2016). As a
result, it is true that some of the cases, due to high job stress, bad management practices get
highlighted.
According to Bliese, Edwards and Sonnentag (2017), it is true that workplace pressure is
something, which cannot be avoided by the employees. Work-related stress can lead to poor
organizational performance as well as unsatisfactory work condition. In the contradictory Moen
et al. (2016) opined that stress can also negatively impact on the health and business
performances of the employees. In the most stressful working environment, employee health gets
damaged, which negatively impacts on the behavioral characteristics of them. In the analysis, it
has been identified that in some of the cases, the unmanageable workload on the employees,
influences ample numbers of leaves, which also indirectly affect productivity. Stress is being
considered as the body reaction in which heart rate, as well as berating rate, gets speed up
(Apa.org 2019). In some of the cases, due to continuous unmanaged stress in the workplace,
increasing uses of Alcohol and smoking can negatively impact on the health of employees.
American psychological association has classified stress into three types, such as episodic acute