Session:18 Stress and Well Being
Key Terms
Organizational Behavior | Leadership Development – Micro-Learning Session
Rice University 2020 | Michael Laverty, Colorado State University Global Chris Littel, North Carolina State University| https://openstax.org/details/books/organizational-behavior
- anxiety
- A feeling of inability to deal with anticipated harm.
- burnout
- A general feeling of exhaustion that can develop when a person simultaneously experiences too much pressure to perform and too few sources of satisfaction.
- Eustress
- Beneficial stress.
- frustration
- Refers to a psychological reaction to an obstruction or impediment to goal-oriented behavior.
- general adaptation syndrome
- Consists of three stages: the first stage, alarm; the second stage of resistance; and the third stage, exhaustion.
- hardiness
- Represents a collection of personality characteristics that involve one’s ability to perceptually or behaviorally transform negative stressors into positive challenges.
- health promotion programs
- Represent a combination of diagnostic, educational, and behavior modification activities that are aimed at attaining and preserving good health.
- locus of control
- The concept that much of what happens in one’s life is either under or outside of their own control.
- personal control
- Represents the extent to which an employee actually has control over factors affecting effective job performance.
- rate of life change
- The variety of life events were identified and assigned points based upon the extent to which each event is related to stress and illness.
- role ambiguity
- Occurs when individuals have inadequate information concerning their roles.
- role conflict
- The simultaneous occurrence of two (or more) sets of pressures or expectations; compliance with one would make it difficult to comply with the other.
- role overload
- A condition in which individuals feel they are being asked to do more than time or ability permits.
- role underutilization
- Occurs when employees are allowed to use only a few of their skills and abilities, even though they are required to make heavy use of them.
- social support
- The extent to which organization members feel their peers can be trusted, are interested in one another’s welfare, respect one another, and have a genuine positive regard for one another.
- strain
- The damage resulting from experiencing stress.
- stress
- A physical and emotional reaction to potentially threatening aspects of the environment.
- tolerance for ambiguity
- Individuals measure and affect by role ambiguity (in terms of stress, reduced performance, or propensity to leave) than others with a low tolerance for ambiguity.
- Type A personality
- Type A personality is characterized by impatience, restlessness, aggressiveness, competitiveness, polyphasic activities, and being under considerable time pressure.