Essay On Stressors At Work

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Chapter 9 goes into great detail of motivational approaches. Why do employers want their employees to have a high motivation at the work place? What kind of motivational approaches are there? According to our textbook “work motivation is the force that drives people to behave in a way that energizes, directs, and sustains their work behavior”. The textbook lists and describes different theoretical perspectives on why we need or have motivation. The first theory is the need-motive-value theory. Theories like the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Alldefer’s ERG theory or Herzberg’s two-factor theory falls under the need-motive-value theory. As the names already states it, those theories/motivations are based on what a person needs. An example

According to our textbook stressor refers to any seriously disruptive event, situation, or individual. Strains on the other hand, are undesirable personal outcomes resulting from the experience of stressors. The general stress model shows that stressors at work could be intrinsic work factors, role variables, interpersonal relationships, and career development. Whereas the sources for strains at the workplace could be job-related (low job satisfaction), emotion-related (depression), or physiological (increased illnesses). Peter Warr environmental determinants of well-being model is a way of thinking about how employees’ job can affect their well-being. Just to name a few, opportunity for personal control and opportunity for skill use needs to be considered for the well-being of the employees. Work-family conflicts also affect the well-being of the employees. Work-family conflict is when two domains don’t fit well together and results in one role having a negative effect on the other. An example would if parents might miss a deadline because they need to take time off from work to stay home with a sick child. Work-family enrichment occurs when attitudes and behavior are believed to have a positive carryover from one domain to the other. Here an example could be that by having children, parents have learned how to multitask and they can now use this skill for their workplace. Some employers provide

It’s no secret that doing teamwork can have a lot of benefits. Many different ideas come together, productive discussion can evolve and some great decisions can be made. According to the text book groups undergo social influences, such as norms, roles, conflict, cohesion and social loafing. The norms are the shared expectations about appropriate ways of responding in a group. A norm could be that team member don’t yell at each other. Each team member should also know what his or her role is. Each group will most likely face conflict at some point. It is important here to come to a resolution quickly before the conflict becomes bigger. Another social influence is when the group experiences cohesion, which means members of a group are very close-knit and express unified commitment to the group. For the most part, team work has a lot of benefits. However, there are times where team work can also have a disadvantage. Social loafing is being considered when an individuals’ effort in a wide variety of tasks is decreasing with the increase in the size of the group. Each team work will have a decision-making process. Here it is important to follow the five steps to effective group decision making. Making effective group decision with have a positive outcome on the overall team work. I personally have a good team work going on with my coworkers. Should I or one of my coworker ever need help, we can count on each