Management

Understanding Organisations

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en an increasing amount of talk about “employee stress” over the past decade. Quite what
it is and how best to combat it are two aspects which are rather less well-documented.
This chapter will try to decide – in a non-medical way – what it may be, how it may be caused, what
relevance it has to organisations and their business and how it can best be avoided or treated.
Stress is a more subjective topic than most we have so far encountered. People may have widely differing
views about its causes, impacts and, even, very existence. Management writers are divided about how
it affects management.
One thing that this chapter cannot be is a medical reference point. That would require the authorship
of a fully qualified and widely respected medical practitioner. Medical causes and remedies may be
encountered along the way but strictly in a layman’s context. Equally, anyone reading this who believes
he/she is suffering from stress – or an aspect of it – should consult their GP rather than attribute any
great faith to this work. Medical conditions are not playthings to sustain a tap-room conversation and
neither are personal relationships, which may be intimately entwined with any stress-related condition.
So, if in doubt, do the obvious and responsible thing and go to see your doctor. He or she may well be
able to help with no further medical treatment required. But do not place your faith in a book that does
not set out to be a medical tome.

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Series Title

Understanding Organisations

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: Bookboon.com., 2010

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Language

English

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9788776815387

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1st Edition

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Organisational Behaviour

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