OCCUPATIONAL STRESS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF STRESS MANAGEMENT

Year 2012, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 197 - 208, 01.06.2012

Phuah Ling Mei Rashad Yazdanifard

Abstract

A review study of dealing with occupational stress with a new perspective of stress management strategic, that to prevent and cure the negative aspects of work stress. Whereas research studies on occupational stress suffers from two pivotal shortcomings, such as medico-psychological approach and organizational theory approach. Besides that, a new strategic of stress management is as denoting all activities aimed at reducing the negative impact of stress on individuals’ health and well-being and on resources and competencies constituting competitive advantage. Based on part of discussion, the problem of occupational stress has been highlighted and extensively studied by representatives of the medico- psychological field of research, organizational theorists have not sufficiently formulated how stress is related to quality of job and occupation performance. In this research paper, the methodologies used are based on secondary data and online research technique. The aim for this study case is to give me an opportunity to interpret a practical overview of dealing with occupational stress with a new perspective of stress management

Keywords

Occupational stress, Stress Management

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