Stress and Change
Introduction. The presence of stress in the work organization is a problem whichcreates operational problems and additional costs for American businesses.The organizations in which people work affect their thoughts, feelings, andactions in the workplace and away from it. Likewise, people's thoughts,feelings, and actions affect the organizations in which they work.Organizational behavior is an area of inquiry concerned with both areas ofinfluence: the affect of work organizations on people and people on workorganizations. The slice of the organizational behavior literature thispaper addresses has to do with the feelings of workers, how organizationsaffect them and how they affect organizations. As will be seen in thefollowing section, we focus on the affective dimensions of organizationalbehavior because organizational researchers have begun to demonstrate aserious interest in moods and emotions in the workplace. The problem faced by organizations and their leaders is how to helpindividuals adapt to changing the workplace without developing maladaptivebehaviors. Change is inevitable, and in the current business environment,
This paradigm shift represents one of the differences between aDOS and windows multitasking system. * An additional attention to details. , simultaneously attending to demandsof different roles) had immediate effects on stress, and the emotionalstability of the study subjects. $ Lack of purpose: Those involved with the change can fall into a temporary malaise, and not see any reason for the change and/or do not understand the benefits. They will make newpsychological safety nets based in the new system. The Scanning, or movement phase is the most complicated, as eachperson in the organization may proceed through the movement and refreezingsteps of the process at different rates, and with different levels ofpsychological energy. " $ Work overload: When employee's energy is already consumed by the traditional workload, they do not have spare energy, physical or psychosocial energies to commit to the change. Work Group Characteristics: Preliminary research suggests thatindividuals within a work group commonly share consistent feelings towardthe work environment or homogeneous affective reactions (George 1990, 1995)The arisal of a "group affective tone" can be influenced by characteristicand personality traits within groups. Just asindividuals resist physically when someone tries to assault them, anorganization, or its individual members can use resistance as a defensemechanism, when we perceive any change as a threat. The organization which stands still is soon left behind,in a competitive disadvantage. In short, due to theunderlying psycho dynamics of the group, and the unprepared organizationalidentity, they are likely to choose a path to fail, rather than choose apath that will bring additional undamaged anxiety into the work setting. As a result, organizational members respond or react withconscious and unconscious defense mechanisms which hinder the organizationsproductivity, and maladaptive the organizations culture.
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