Workplace Stress Case Study

In today’s work life, since people spend most of their time at workplace, it is vital to keep physical and psychological health at work which form one of the two sides of qualified work-home balance. Researches which focus on the workplace environment indicate that the well-being of the employees at workplace largely influenced by the work stress that can be defined as the loss of control of the individual over his performance for work (Anderson & Pulich, 2001). That means, knowledge, skill and ability of the person becomes not enough for the demands of the work. This situation proves the availability of stressors which may show themselves under three dimensions: Job related demands, role demands and group related demands (Anderson & Pulich,

Giving health care to the patients who are in their terminal term, insufficient equipment, work overload, conflicts with co-workers, insufficient performance appraisal mechanism, and uncertainty, angry and over demanding patients are one those stress factors that negatively influence health care givers (Chang et al, 2006) and similarly these stressors are seen in nursing homes which is one of the branches of health care sector. For example, in the nursing home where the present study was done, every resident has at least one disease which requires permanent health care. In health care workplace environment, medical or non-medical care giving staff takes a special position that puts them in a stress risky situations. Because that profession requires the ability to work as a teammate, responsibility of giving care during 24 hours and ability to stay emotionally strong (Philips & Brooks, 1996). However, stating only a few factors that determine the degree of these staff’s distress doesn’t give enough explanation about the issue. For example, one of the prominent stress factor in that profession is the intense shift working that negatively influence their social life in return. The shortage of staff makes the work overload became bigger that

The conflict modes of the staff will be used as a potential moderator between perceived job stress and the felt stress and it will be searched to explore the following