Question

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.

Answer 1

1. magnitude of stress that people experience:

• Feeling Pressure from company management
• worries of financial security/ loans etc. at home
• Thought of survival in this period

Overall mental stress for future security

2. How businesses response affect people:

• Downsizing
• Layoffs
• Freezing salaries
• No future job assurance
• Career gap

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:

• remain calm but conservative in such situation
• try to maintain current job
• reduce current expenses to secure it for any future disaster
• try to search a fine job as soon as possible