Article Summary: This article discusses how studies were conducted and posted in August 2015 on a medical journal showing long working hours and coronary heart disease risk due to stress. Working longer hours increase the risk of stroke and coronary heart disease compared to a standard workweek. A healthy workplace environment with ideas, positive attitudes, and strong connections from employees can assist with a positive workplace. (Miller, 2015, para.13). This article also explains how an inactive
1 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Introduction Considering the background of the study, it is apparent that workplace accidents are frequent in all the industries. These accidents result in severe consequences for the employees and the corporations as well. This chapter highlights all the previous studies that discuss the prevention of accidents in the workplace, the cause of these accidents and the benefits of reduced accident for organisations. 1.2 Practices of Avoiding Accidents The uncertainty
As the global economy continues to expand and evolve, corporate cultures are also in a state of fluctuation. As these corporate cultures change issues developed in the workplace arise. One of these many issues is workplace bullying. This topic is a serious matter and is evident in many organizations around the world. The effects of this phenomenon can be potentially harmful not only to the victim but also to the organization itself. It is vital that steps are taken to stop bullying once it starts
The world is fast turning to a global village and this is as a result of the introduction of the use of diverse technological tools in carrying functions or activities that originally were done manually. The present age is referred to as the information age or the digital age. The information age today is faced with diverse challenges and issues. Most of these issues are related to the use of information technology tools in carrying out various activities. Library and information services delivery
factors that lead to workers who turn into the stressors in their workplace. One of the sources is from organizational section which is situational stress. This stress appears from certain conditions that occur in the workplace or the worker’s individual life. The situational stressors often influenced by the high demand of themselves either in physical or psychological in completing their work tasks. This type of stressors usually stress up themselves by their own or the organization’s from highly desires
Question 1 Stress is a leading of cause of mortality in the world (DeLongis, 1986). Indeed, it can result in many kinds of diseases but the most prominent are coronary heart disease, other vascular diseases like strokes and depression (DeLongis, 1986). This is why stress in the workplace has to be addressed since an adult will roughly spend a third of his life working (DeLongis, 1986) and therefore what Pamela is experiencing in her workplace should be addressed urgently. The stress theory of job
Lateral Violence Ayva Rodriguez Felician College Lateral Violence Violence in the workplace is defined by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as an act of violence whether it is a physical assault or a threat directed towards the coworker (Longton, 2014). Lateral violence can be verbal or nonverbal act of conflict towards the coworker to purposefully demean, diminish the victim’s stature, or humiliate them that might result in social exclusion and can lead to the
The case study being addressed takes place at Acme Medical Center. The issue at hand is lack of civility in the healthcare setting. An IV therapist was administering care to a patient who was comatose. She treated and spoke to the patient as she does with everyone. The therapist made sure to knock before entering, introduce herself, ensure she was caring for the correct person, and gave detail regarding what she was about to do. While providing care the Chief Resident and his students walked in.
Furthermore, the workplace environment is additionally an issue for employee retention in light of the way that there are different zones in business yet workplace particularly has been the objective of talk from numerous modern points of view. As indicated by Hytter (2008), The fascinating reality here is that the workplace perspectives are fundamentally unique when contrasted with administrations division and manufacturing divisions. In telecom division; that is considered as administrations where
Case Study on Google Ashish Shakya Kings College Affiliated To Westcliff University BUS 323 Organizational Behavior Professor Shirley Chuo/Pritha Malla January 31, 2017 Abstract The case that were given to us to analyze on Google on its employees and the effectiveness of the corporation’s diverse of working environment since in this case, we found about the heavy work stress faced by the employees in order of doing their job and is also mentioned that how they are satisfied doing their work and