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Because this is of such high importance in the global organization, it becomes necessary to ask several questions regarding stress. First, business leaders should inquire: What are the specific symptoms of stress in the workplace? Secondly, what factors account for stress and how might they be explained? Finally, in order to create a more productive and competitive organization, how might stress be better managed in today’s global organization? These questions will be answered comprehensively by examining stress and its impact on both the employee and organizational leadership.
Attitude directly impacts stress levels in employees. Employees working in global organizations will either have positive views about their co-workers and managers (or their job roles) or they will have less commitment toward meeting organizational goals due to being unsatisfied at multiple levels. Today, lack of appreciation, support and recognition from their superiors can create stress (St-Vincenta, Denis, Imbeau & Trudeau, 2006). In highly-controlling organizations, where decision-making is often top-down and trickles downward, employees have a high level of management presence as they perform their routine job responsibilities.
Managers that have a rigid leadership style and are less transformational or charismatic can create negative attitudes in employees that lead to emotional exhaustion and a growing tendency to depersonalize others in the organizational unit (Singh, Goolsby & Rhoads, 1994). When these symptoms are present, due to management inability to lead effectively, the organizational culture can be quite negative and relationships damaged due to the poor attitudes created by rigid leadership design. Lack of recognition and support are quite important to the global organization as employees are expected to be committed and team-oriented in order to
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