Define stress and describe at least four sources of stress on the job.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Here are six sources of stress on the job:

1. Demands created by individual differences: these may arise from a Type A behavior pattern, meaning people have the personality characteristic that involves them in a chronic, determined struggle to accomplish more in less time.
2. Individual task demands: the stresses created by the job itself.
3. Individual role demands: the stresses created by other people's expectations of you. Roles are sets of behaviors that people expect of occupants of a position. Stress may come about because of role overload, role conflict, or role ambiguity.
4. Group demands: those created by coworkers and managers.
5. Organizational demands: the stresses created by the environment and culture of the organization.
6. Nonwork demands: the demands created by forces outside the organization, such as money problems or divorce.