Work Stress and Employee Health: A Multidisciplinary Review

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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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