Work Stress and Employee Health: A Multidisciplinary Review

This article provides a multidisciplinary review of work stress and its impact on employee health. It discusses the causes and consequences of workplace stress, as well as the need for further research in this area.

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Literature review
Source: Ganster, D. C., & Rosen, C. C. (2013). Work stress and employee health: A
multidisciplinary review. Journal of management, 39(5), 1085-1122.
According to the article, occupational stress engulfs both the low and high paying jobs. The main
aspect is that workplace activities have various requirements. There are challenges in meeting
workplace demands which when left unhandled can lead to illness and psychological distress of
employees. This is a hugely problematic issue for workers and firms as it can bring about
burnout, illness and labor turnover. In general, this leads to minimal efficiency and employee
performance levels.
In both the well-paying jobs and low paying jobs, the work environment emerges as a
conceivably critical source of stress.
According to Ganster &Rosen, stress in the workplace environment has changed the overall
performance of workers. In several workgroups, stress has become quite an epidemic. In the US
the well-paying jobs such as health care professionals and recreational directors have been
deemed as the most prone jobs with high workplace stress (Nieuwenhuijsen, Bruinvels, &
Frings-Dresen, 2010).
There exist constrained research and publications regarding the comparison of work stress
cultures within the workplace.
Abnormal amounts of stress may likewise result in expanded staff turnover, increased accidental
event rates, increasingly physical sick wellbeing, progressively mental sick wellbeing, and
worker absenteeism. Non-attendance specifically has turned into a noteworthy worry in
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industrialized nations in view of its prudent outcomes. For example, sickness absenteeism figures
demonstrate that the loss of working days for the industry in the US adds up to about 550 million
(3– 7%) every year and for the UK this figure is 3.7% of the all-out number of working days.
There is a need to do future research on this comparison
Source: Karakas, F. (2010). Spirituality and performance in organizations: A literature review.
Journal of business ethics, 94(1), 89-106.
Introduction and overview: According to this article Stress and occupation burnout additionally
are identified with explicit requests of work, including over-burden, varieties in the remaining
task at hand, job strife, and job uncertainty.
In addition absence of employment fulfillment, which regularly disintegrates responsibility to the
association and leads to higher turnover.
Typically Karakas, (2010) clarified on the basis that workplace problems ought to be identified
as production challenges to acquire the required economic gains. The continuous reminders of
key work design include employee suffering, economic losses such as lowering productivity
levels. Karakas, (2010) expressed strongly that workplace health experts have researched and
identified that stress causes much negative effects to the business enterprise. Clearly, work-
related stress issues are seen to compromise health problems in the UK for both high and low
paying jobs.
Its estimated cost per year is 4 billion Euros.
How Stress is caused
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The signs of stress in workers can be seen in their behaviors especially their workplace
behavioral changes. Some of the causes of stress include; depression, and irritability and fatigue
levels resulting from a lot of work with relatively low pay. Changes in employee behavior
revolve around being unmotivated through wages, low concentration and low problem-solving
abilities (Lang, Ochsmann, Kraus, T., & Lang, 2012).
The paper discusses different sources by using the overall advancement in laborers' pay,
inspecting a few milestone cases—in which offended parties have won and lost—that have set up
guidelines and offering a five-point program to enable directors to manage the legitimate issues
encompassing stress.
Methodology
The word related scores on physical and mental sick wellbeing and employment fulfillment are
taken from an investigation into organization related stress through utilizing the ASSET stress
questionnaire. In any case, a concise diagram of the estimation device is important to give the
reader in several sets in which the workplace information has been assembled (Nielsen, Tangen,
Idsoe, Matthiesen, & Magerøy, 2015). The design of the literature source comprises concepts
such as;
(1)High and lowing paying job stress" which associates profoundly with the Karakas, (2010)
work fulfillment scale and all things considered is accounted for here as a valuable sign of
dimensions of employment fulfillment.
2."Physical Health";
3."Mental Well-being".
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This ASSET methodology has been utilized as a pressure estimation instrument in more than 26
associations bringing about a huge dataset of more than 25,000 people incorporating a wide
range of occupation types.
Source: Beehr, T. A. (2014). Psychological stress in the workplace (psychology revivals).
Edition 1st Edition. First Published 1 January 1970. eBook Published 17 June 2014. Pub.
location London. Imprint Routledge.
The source gives information on the aspect of job fulfillment, the experience of negative stress
results and also permits the evaluation of "high" and "low” paying stress occupations (Peters et
al, 2014). Further research work on the ASSET database, including the investigation of the
specific stressors most applicable to singular occupations is in progress and will be accounted for
in resulting research papers.
According to Beehr (2014) Stress is a noteworthy contributing component to corporate
wastefulness, high staff turnover, non-attendance and diminished quality. Researchers led an
exploration to inspect the foundations for burnout among the essential low and well-paying jobs.
The author has discovered that burnout negatively affects the execution of employee duties.
Also, as per the examination led by Beehr (2014) stress influence the execution of the workers.
The research gathered information from 300 employee participants from low and well-paying
sections. Stress results to negative effects as it has been described by Tetrick & Winslow (2015).
Therefore, it shows that stress affects the performance levels of the entire organization. Work
related stress issue is a huge problem for employees as they result to minimal productivity and
other. The author further referred that businesses should figure out how to address the issues of
job stress since it gravely effects on employee performance.
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Source: Literature
review
Method and
methodology
Literature findings Research short
comes
: Karakas, F. (2010).
Spirituality and
performance in
organizations: A
literature review.
Journal of business
ethics, 94(1), 89-106.
1000 industry
employees
Increase in the
workload operation
results to increased
employee stress level,
and high blood
pressure
Applicable to well
developed nations.
Source:Beehr, T. A.
(2014). Psychological
stress in the
workplace
(psychologyrevivals).
Edition 1st Edition.
First Published 1
January 1970. eBook
Published:17
June 2014. Pub.
Location: London.
Imprint Routledge.
110 workers working
a t relatively low
paying jobs in
California. This
includes social
workers and cleaners
The job stress results
to subjective impacts
like fear,
anxiousness, anger to
workers.
Therefore ,the aspect
brings about low
mental and
psychological
wellbeing
The literature review
source only focus on
job stress as the
identified factor
influencing job
performance. Some
other correlating
factors are not
considered hence the
need to carry put
further future
research
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Source: Ganster, D.
C., & Rosen, C. C.
(2013). Work stress
and employee health:
A multidisciplinary
review. Journal of
management, 39(5),
1085-1122.
1100 employees as
participants working
in insurance firms
The negative
correlation existing
between low paying
job and workplace
performance
indicates that the job
stress arising
decreased the morale
and performance of
individual worker
Budgetary
shortcomings. Thus
the need to identify a
convenient and
timely sampling
technique for other
future research
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References
Beehr, T. A. (2014). Psychological stress in the workplace (psychology revivals). Edition 1st
Edition. First Published 1 January 1970. eBook Published 17 June 2014. Pub. Location
London. Imprint Routledge.
Ganster, D. C., & Rosen, C. C. (2013). Work stress and employee health: A multidisciplinary
review. Journal of management, 39(5), 1085-1122.
Karakas, F. (2010). Spirituality and performance in organizations: A literature review. Journal of
business ethics, 94(1), 89-106.
Lang, J., Ochsmann, E., Kraus, T., & Lang, J. W. (2012). Psychosocial work stressors as
antecedents of musculoskeletal problems: a systematic review and meta-analysis of
stability-adjusted longitudinal studies. Social science & medicine, 75(7), 1163-1174.
Nielsen, M. B., Tangen, T., Idsoe, T., Matthiesen, S. B., & Magerøy, N. (2015). Post-traumatic
stress disorder as a consequence of bullying at work and at school. A literature review
and meta-analysis. Aggression and violent behavior, 21, 17-24.
Nieuwenhuijsen, K., Bruinvels, D., & Frings-Dresen, M. (2010). Psychosocial work environment
and stress-related disorders, a systematic review. Occupational medicine, 60(4), 277-286.
Peters, L., Cant, R., Sellick, K., O'Connor, M., Lee, S., Burney, S., & Karimi, L. (2012). Is work
stress in palliative care nurses a cause for concern? A literature review. International
Journal of Palliative Nursing, 18(11), 561-567.
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Tetrick, L. E., & Winslow, C. J. (2015). Workplace stress management interventions and health
promotion. Annu. Rev. Organ. Psychol. Organ. Behav., 2(1), 583-603.
Appendix
Some of the sampling methods needed for this research include;
 Surveys
 Online periodicals
 Questionnaires to employees who are the main participants
Sample of questionnaires
1. Are you contented with your organization’s monthly salary?
2. What are the major causes of stress when carrying out duties?
3. How many times do you get sick as a result of stress illness in a year?
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