In: Operations Management
1. How has the Great Recession directly affected the
magnitude of stress that people experience?
2. How have the responses of businesses to the Great Recession
affected employees' stress levels?
3. How can the Yerkes-Dobson law help in understanding the impact
of the Great Recession on people's stress levels?
4. Drawing on your answer to the preceding question, explain what
individuals could do to deal effectively with their stress
levels.
5. Drawing on your answer to the third question, explain what
employers could do to help employees deal effectively with their
stress levels.
1. magnitude of stress that people experience:
Overall mental stress for future security
2. How businesses response affect people:
3. Yerkes-Dodson Law correlates the level of employee arousal with employee behaviours, like employee performance tend to increase when aroused but only up to a certain point. Behaviours of employees is related to the stimuli that they expose. The great recession can bring negative stimuli such as layoffs, salary freezes, bonus cuts causing emotional strain and under performance
4. what individuals could do: