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Chapter 7 - online DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Is there more stress today than in past generations? What evidence is available concerning this question?
2. Discuss the following statement: Employers should be expected to provide stress-free work environments.
3. Do you use any stress prevention methods that are not discussed in the chapter? If so, what are they?
This are different questions:
1. Define stress, distress, and strain. Provide a separate example for each.
2. List and describe two (of four) approaches to understanding stress.
3. Describe how each of these two approaches adds something new to our understanding of stress.
4. List and describe two additional approaches to understanding stress.
5. Describe how each of these two additional approaches adds something new to our understanding of stress.
6. List three demands of each of the following types:
a. task and
b. role
c. interpersonal and
d. physical.
7. (a) What is a nonwork demand? Define it.
(b) Give three (3) separate examples of nonwork demands. Give specific examples.
8. (a) How do nonwork demands affect an individual?
(b) How do these nonwork demands affect the individual's organization?
9. (a) Describe the major medical consequences of distress.
(b) Describe the major behavioral consequences of distress.
(c) Describe the major psychological consequences of distress.
10. (a) Why should organizations be concerned about employee stress at work?
(b) What are the costs of distress to organizations?
11. (a) Identify one to three preventive stress management strategies that you think are the best to use in the work environment. Why have you chosen them?
(b) How should the effectiveness of these strategies be evaluated?
Remember that these are essay, not short answer, questions. Use complete sentences and answer the questions. To earn points, put some thought into your responses.
EC7 a. What are some of the differences between Type A and Type B personalities?
EC7 b. (1) Indicate ways in which you can prevent distress in preparing for the final exam of this course. Be specific! (Don't just write: study more.) (2) What would you have to change in your life to prepare for your final exam in these ways?