Organizational Climate
Monday, December 08, 2008
Reducing the Fear Factor
Workers look for reassurance from their employers as the financial downturn raises economic anxiety to new heights.
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Suicides linked to work-related stress up in Japan
The number of people who committed suicide or tried to in Japan because of work-related stress has doubled in the last five years, a government report said, illustrating the growing anxiety many here feel from increased workloads and competition.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Stress At Work Increases The Progression Of Arteriosclerosis
Work stress, resulting from great pressure at the work place, may increase the progression of atherosclerosis by 46% in people who have highly reactive personalities to stress.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Canadian workers punch in even when sick and exhausted
According to a study released today, 42 per cent of Canadian workers went to work sick or exhausted at least once in 2007. Of these, 29 per cent admitted to working while ill three to five times, 11 per cent from six to 10 times and 12 per cent admitted to more than 10 times in the last year. Nine out of 10 workers believe that the incidences of stress-related mental health problems, such as burn-out, depression and anxiety have been increasing over the years.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
High level of stress rampant in workplace
Poll results released in October by the American Psychological Association found that one-third of Americans are living with extreme stress, and that the most commonly cited source of stress - mentioned by 74 percent of respondents - was work. That was up from 59 percent the previous year.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Towers Perrin Study Finds Significant “Engagement Gap” Among Global Workforce
Employees do not believe their organizations or their senior management are doing enough to help them become fully engaged and contribute to their companies’ success, according to a new global workforce study conducted by Towers Perrin, a global professional services firm. Just 21% of the employees surveyed around the world are engaged in their work, meaning they’re willing to go the extra mile to help their companies succeed. Fully 38% are partly to fully disengaged.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Few Employers Addressing Workplace Stress
Workplace stress is the most frequently cited reason U.S. employees consider leaving their jobs. While employers acknowledge that stress is affecting business performance, few are taking steps to address it, according to two surveys by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a leading global consulting firm. Nearly half of U.S. employers (48 percent) say stress caused by working long hours is affecting business performance. However, only 5 percent are addressing this concern.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
A Hospital that Truly Cares
When so much of the news we hear about the US health care system is what’s breaking or broken, it’s inspiring to hear the story of a hospital that is transforming stress and transforming lives. Delnor-Community Hospital in Geneva, Illinois recently received two awards from HeartMath®, an innovative research, technology and training organization which is helping hospitals across the US create healthy environments for both staff and patients.
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Workers’ Mental Health and Stress Affecting Business Results in Canada
The 2007 Staying@Work Canada report found that mental health issues are the leading cause of both long- and short-term disability claims (72 percent and 82 percent respectively). Despite the prevalence of these claims, only 15 percent of responding companies conduct mental health risk assessments and less than 20 percent say that addressing the stigma associated with mental illness is a priority.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Older workers stress less, U-M study suggests
Older workers generally report low levels of work-related stress, according to a University of Michigan study of a nationally representative sample of older workers.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
1.3 billion mental health days
Mental disorders account for about a third of sick days, roughly equal to those caused by back and neck pain, according to the most comprehensive report yet on the effect of illness on disability. Adult Americans with depression, anxiety or other psychological disorders annually miss 1.3 billion days of work, school or other daily activity.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Chronic Job Strain Following Heart Attack Doubles Risk Of Another Heart Attack
If you experience chronic job strain after your first heart attack you have approximately double the risk of experiencing another coronary heart disease (CHD) event, such as unstable angina or a heart attack, compared to a person who does not experience chronic job strain after a first heart attack.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Depression Intervention in Workplace Increases Employee Productivity 2.6 Hours a Week
A study conducted by Harvard Medical School, Group Health Cooperative’s Center for Health Studies and OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions (formerly United Behavioral Health) found that a systematic approach to identifying and treating depression not only improves clinical outcomes but also results in higher job retention, decreased sickness, lower work-absence and increased work productivity.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Email stress - the new office workers’ plague
Workers are suffering from the growing problem of ‘email stress’ as they struggle to cope with an unending tide of messages, new research reveals. Employees are becoming tired, frustrated and unproductive after constantly monitoring the electronic messages that keep interrupting them as they try to concentrate at work.
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
High pressure jobs linked to depression
Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s have published a new study linking high-pressure jobs to the onset of depression and anxiety in young working men and women with no pre-employment history of either condition. This study is the first to link pressurised work and the development of mental health problems.
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