High Stress Low Productivity : Fixing An American Labor Dilemma

Introduction Stress affects millions of people. One of the most common forms of stress is that related to our careers and the workplace. In today 's economic difficulty, work related stress is even more pronounced than ever before. Everyone who has ever held a job has, felt the pressure of work-related stress. Any job can have stressful elements, even if you love what you do. According to the American Psychological Association 's (APA) annual Stress in America Survey. Only 37 percent of Americans surveyed said they were doing

Developing work attitudes is by reducing imprudence that was between the hourly workers and their mangers and increasing job satisfaction and organizational commitment. It is clear that workers at this motor company have the lowest job satisfaction in order of various negative influences that impact their life. First, mangers at this company did not treat their employees as a human, they treat them as machines, that should rich the demand by the end of the day, and called them by numbers not their name. Second, workers have intrinsic value, extrinsic value, and ethical values that ford would not respect. Third, Stressful work without any reward and the work environment that was not save, clean, or regulated at the plant. Finally, week bonds between mangers and workers that create week work energy and losing trust between employees as results the work has turned down frequently. In addition, at Ford Motor Company the physical and psychological

There is a direct link between a high or low level of trust between the workers and management within a corporation and the productivity growth. Corporation must be willing and prepared to make small but regular investments that are required, and there will be a high substantial return, both in material and a healthy labour management climate. There are mainly three concepts that describe the working climate within a firm or organization: the satisfaction the employees get form working, the general trust in the corporation and level of trust the average employee has in the chief executive. Managers must mold their employees, and by doing that they will

An employee’s morale is tied to their work, the more stressed and dissatisfied the employees are the more their work will suffer. A happy employee means more work will be done, working in a happy and safe and secure work environment will make the workers more willing to work harder.

Workers in Great Britian too said that their jobs were the source of their stress, however only 16% of them said this. This is about 10% percent less than American workers. This stress that consumes so many people leads to a lower quality of life. Stress is also the number one cause of mental and physical health problems. Even greater than stress, some people actually die from overwork, as there is also term coined for this known as Karōshi in Japanese.

Stress has been linked to hypertension, heart attacks, diabetes, asthma, chronic pain, allegeries, headaches, skin disorders, cancer, immune system weakness and decrease blood count (Cummings et al, 2005). It has also been linked to an increase risk of alcoholism and drug use. High levels of stress can lead to higher absenteeism, larger staff turnover and low productivity. The symptoms are evident in the quantitative data, with an

Motivation and behavior. Motivation and behavior plays a strong role in climate and the organizational trust. Cogaltay & Karadag (2014) suggested that trust is the belief about another person? behavior and how it will meet expectations of actions regarding having no pressured feelings to defend oneself after being vulnerable. It is the most effective aspect in forming any positive relationship and the staff effectiveness comes from the open, honest, and structured communication daily (Glisson,

What is your response when someone asks you for your opinion about overworked Americans? Schabner states “Americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world.” In other words, Schabner is saying that compared to other countries America is so high up in the working world that a majority of our people are workaholics (Schabner Americans). Even though some argue Americans are lazy and depend on the government, Americans are overworked because overworking causes physical and mental damage, and the more hours a person works the less productive they are.

Studies have suggested work stress levels peak at age 50-55 years (Work Stress Peaks During Middle Age, 2015). Stress is usually handled by one of two ways – effective coping which leads to healthy lifestyle choices and stress response which usually leads to negative health factors (Depp & Jeste, 2010) like smoking, sleeping less, drinking more alcohol and developing poor nutrition habits. Stress is also found to enable developing of illnesses like Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease and diabetes (Alzheimer's Society, 2015).

In conclusion, stress is a major health risk and is overly common among United States citizens. It is extremely widespread and is underestimated. Stress can occur from a number of sorts. Stress can be self-inflicted. It can be caused by a person’s surroundings. Too many Americans are stressed out and remain stressed out due to involvement in multiple activities, influence to present themselves a certain way, and dietary

Work related stress has been emerging as one of the main causes of adverse symptoms of mental health in today’s industrial societies. The direct result of excessive pressures and/or demands placed on individuals at work, work-related stress has caused some people to develop symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other adverse mental health effects. While it might be possible that other co-factors contribute to the development of anxiety and depression in some population groups, evidence suggests that pressure from works is more likely to trigger adverse reactions in some people. In fact, positive correlations have been established between symptoms of work stress and mental health problems. That is, it is not uncommon to witness loss of

In this paper I will discuss stress and the workplace stress survey from the American Institute of Stress and if left untreated, how it will negatively affect the workforce. I will explain the results of my survey scores and why I believe they are positive and negative. Additionally, I will describe personal examples of the stressors that are always at work and how to identify and overcome them before they cause irreparable damage.

We spend much of daily lives working. In fact, Americans spend about eight-times as many hours working as they do eating and drinking (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013). Approximately seven in ten Americans report that they experience symptoms of stress (Anderson, Belar, Breckler, Nordal, Ballard, Bufka, Bossolo & Bethune, 2013). Stress is elicited by a variety of psychological stimulus associated with our jobs, our residences, our social interactions, and the activities we engage in (p. 249, Franken, 2007). Many Americans live with the burden of an unsatisfying job as well as a stressful workplace. An online survey of 1,848 people in the United States, conducted by the American Psychological Association, found that 74 percent of

Hayes & Weathington (2007) cited the “National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health” as saying that job stress has developed into

Stress is a common issue that faces every human being in different times. Stress can be caused by many factors, but one of the main reasons is work which is called occupational stress or work-related stress. Job stress does not only affect the employees’ performance within an organization, but also it affects their general health. Stress has become a challenge for employers now because high level stress results in low productivity, increased absenteeism and other problems like alcoholism, drug abuse and hypertension (Ahmad, Mohamed. 2017). It became a major problem for employers especially in developing countries where they don’t realize the importance of work-life balance and the impact of stress on the productivity level and the job