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Burnout occurs only in physically demanding jobs.
Burnout occurs only in physically demanding jobs.
False
Spiritual fatigue can lead to feelings of unhappiness and pessimism.
Spiritual fatigue can lead to feelings of unhappiness and pessimism.
True
Mismatched people do not perform their jobs well but enjoy what they do.
Mismatched people do not perform their jobs well but enjoy what they do.
False
Providing flexibility for employees helps improve job satisfaction.
Providing flexibility for employees helps improve job satisfaction.
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The Japanese term 'Karoshi' refers to death due to excessive leisure.
The Japanese term 'Karoshi' refers to death due to excessive leisure.
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Women holding jobs and raising children simultaneously may experience overload or underload.
Women holding jobs and raising children simultaneously may experience overload or underload.
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Executive monkeys developed health issues because they were uninformed of their responsibilities.
Executive monkeys developed health issues because they were uninformed of their responsibilities.
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Tertiary prevention strategies in job stress interventions focus on changing the work environment.
Tertiary prevention strategies in job stress interventions focus on changing the work environment.
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Resilience involves characteristics such as personal commitment and caring relationships.
Resilience involves characteristics such as personal commitment and caring relationships.
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Job stress affects only a small percentage of workers in the United States.
Job stress affects only a small percentage of workers in the United States.
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Listening to others shows respect and can provide important information.
Listening to others shows respect and can provide important information.
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A positive attitude is unimportant when dealing with change.
A positive attitude is unimportant when dealing with change.
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Having an open mind is essential for exploring possibilities during change.
Having an open mind is essential for exploring possibilities during change.
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Accepting the consequences of actions is a sign of responsibility.
Accepting the consequences of actions is a sign of responsibility.
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Resolving to improve means being unwilling to alter behavior.
Resolving to improve means being unwilling to alter behavior.
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Goal setting is part of the planning process for future challenges.
Goal setting is part of the planning process for future challenges.
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It is better to dwell on the past rather than focus on the present when coping with change.
It is better to dwell on the past rather than focus on the present when coping with change.
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Celebrating accomplishments is an important aspect of building commitment.
Celebrating accomplishments is an important aspect of building commitment.
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Providing training is not helpful during the change process.
Providing training is not helpful during the change process.
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Brainstorming alternatives can help in the process of coping with change.
Brainstorming alternatives can help in the process of coping with change.
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Downsizing in an organization often leads to feelings of sadness and guilt among remaining employees.
Downsizing in an organization often leads to feelings of sadness and guilt among remaining employees.
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Kurt Lewin's model for managing change consists of six steps.
Kurt Lewin's model for managing change consists of six steps.
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A positive attitude towards lifelong learning is essential to remain viable in the workplace.
A positive attitude towards lifelong learning is essential to remain viable in the workplace.
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Resistance to change is easily overcome with rigid management structures.
Resistance to change is easily overcome with rigid management structures.
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Personal examples set by leaders can significantly influence employee attitudes towards change.
Personal examples set by leaders can significantly influence employee attitudes towards change.
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Empowering employees to take part in change efforts includes confronting supervisors who undermine these initiatives.
Empowering employees to take part in change efforts includes confronting supervisors who undermine these initiatives.
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People always respond positively to change, assuming it leads to personal gain.
People always respond positively to change, assuming it leads to personal gain.
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To successfully manage change, leaders should communicate the organization's vision and encourage risk-taking.
To successfully manage change, leaders should communicate the organization's vision and encourage risk-taking.
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Change in the workplace can lead to a breakdown of traditional social orders and values.
Change in the workplace can lead to a breakdown of traditional social orders and values.
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Complacency is a key factor that can lead to successful organizational change.
Complacency is a key factor that can lead to successful organizational change.
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Study Notes
Learning Objectives
- Leaders can help people through change by exhibiting positive attitudes and personal examples
- Understanding the burnout process, with steps for emergency, short-term, and long-term support
- Identifying hardy personality characteristics
- Assessing one's adaptive capacity and stress resistance
Types of Changes in the Workplace
- Structure: Significant, often resisted change
- Tasks: Changes driven by customer needs and quality initiatives
- Technology: Advancements dramatically increase the rate of change
- People: Shifting relationships due to structure, task, or technology changes; individual changes due to skill, attitude, or knowledge
Change in the Workplace, 1
- Downsizing: Business re-engineering, government reorganization, and management initiatives.
- Survivor Syndrome: Employees left after downsizing experience fear of future cuts, sadness from coworker losses, and increased workload.
Change in the Workplace, 2
- People need flexibility and a positive attitude toward continual learning to remain productive in a changing workplace.
- Career education is essential
- Organizational change can be costly
Organizational Response to Change
- Top Management: May underestimate change impact on lower levels, expect compliance and blame middle managers, may be insulated from results
- Middle Management: Feels pressure to implement change, often lacks information and leadership direction, squeezed between resistant subordinates and demanding superiors
- Frontline Employees: Feel threatened by organizational changes, may respond with denial and resistance, and feel worry and protectiveness
Managing People through Change
- Top management needs to be aware of the impact change has on lower levels
- Top management needs to ensure middle management is well-equipped for the change
- Top management needs to know the outcome of their decisions and plans
Managing People through Change, 2
- Middle managers feel pressure to implement change, and may lack information or direction.
- Middle managers may feel squeezed between resistant subordinates and out-of-touch superiors.
Managing People through Change, 3
- Frontline employees may feel threatened by management changes and respond with resistance.
- Frequent reaction to changes is worry and a protective response.
Managing People through Change, 4
- Individuals judge change based on their personal implications.
- Resistance to change can be high when change affects individuals personally.
- People dislike loss of control and are often resistant to change.
- Organizational change can be the only way for a company to survive.
Guidelines for Leaders in Change Efforts
- Ensure strong reasons for change
- Make change personal
- Carefully consider the implementation of changes
- Place a respected individual in charge of coordinating the change
- Be honest and transparent about change
- Be patient.
- Recognize and reward efforts.
- Maintain open communication channels.
Kurt Lewin's Three-Step Process
- Unfreezing: Reduce or eliminate resistance to change.
- Moving: Create two-way communication and encourage group discussion
- Refreezing: Point out successes and reward those involved in implementation.
Understanding Complex Organizational Change
- Effective leaders determine the sequence and pace of change.
- Effective leaders communicate clear organizational purpose, priorities, and the rate of change effectively.
- Effective leaders demonstrate presence and poise
- Effective leaders reduce pressure, conflict, and frustration
The Eight-Stage Process of Creating Major Change
- 1. Establishing a sense of urgency: Examine market realities, identify and discuss potential crises.
- 2. Creating the guiding coalition: Build a team with power for leading change, ensure effective teamwork.
- 3. Developing a vision and strategy: Provide a vision to guide the change, develop methods for achieving that vision.
- 4. Communicating the change vision: Use multiple communication methods to constantly communicate the vision and strategies.
- 5. Empowering broad-based action: Address and remove obstacles, encourage risk-taking.
- 6. Generating short-term wins: Identify and create visible improvements, celebrate achievements.
- 7. Consolidating gains and producing more change: Use improved credibility to make changes in systems, structures, and policies that do not fit the vision. Provide training, develop personnel for implementing the vision.
- 8. Anchoring new approaches in the culture: Make changes in performance through customer-oriented and productivity-oriented behavior; reinforce better leadership. Ensure sufficient leadership development and succession planning in management.
Eight Errors Common to Organizational Change Efforts
- Allowing too much complacency
- Failing to create a sufficiently strong guiding coalition
- Underestimating the power of vision
- Undercommunicating the vision greatly
- Permitting obstacles in the new vision
- Failing to create short-term wins
- Declaring victory too soon
- Neglecting to anchor changes firmly in organizational culture
Consequences of the Errors Common to Organizational Change Efforts
- Failure of strategies
- Acquisition failures
- Inefficient or very expensive re-engineering
- Ineffective downsizing practices
- Unfulfilling quality programs.
Empowering People to Effect Change
- Communicate vision: Clearly communicate vision to employees.
- Compatible structures: Ensure structures are compatible with vision, align information and personnel systems.
- Training: Provide adequate training to employees.
- Confront undercutting supervisors: Confront supervisors who undermine needed change.
The Role of the Individual
- Quickly adjust to change
- Clarify individual roles
- Contribute more than one's cost
- Make customers a priority
Changes in Today's World
- Technology's influence: Technology impacts work and home
- Pace of change: Technological and social change is accelerating rapidly.
- Communication speed: Communication and information access are increasing.
- Self-help dependence: Reliance on self-help is increasing.
- Workplace diversity: Diversity is increasing in the workplace.
Changes in Today's World, 2
- Diverse living arrangements
- Diverse work arrangements
- Growing population diversity
- Global economies
- Changing social order
Organizational Changes Leading to Stress
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Less supervision: Develop individual responsibilities
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Team culture: Prepare for and accept empowerment
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Focusing on quality: Self-reliance; learning without waiting for training
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Downsizing: Be aware of rumors, but don't let them dominate thoughts.
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Mergers and acquisitions: Learn as much as possible about the other company
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Diversity: Become more aware of one's own values and prejudices.
Organizational Changes Leading to Stress 3
- International Environment: Be honest in considering overseas assignments
- Innovative pay strategies: Understand organization's new pay strategy
The Importance of Attitude
- Attitude affects happiness, effectiveness, and well-being.
- Attitude can influence career, relationships, and health.
The Importance of Attitude, 2
- Avoiding denial, resistance, and negative attitudes when change occurs.
The Importance of Attitude, 3
- Positive reactions to change when people believe the change is necessary, are involved in change, respect the change leader, and believe the change will result in personal gain.
Strategies for Dealing with Change
- Change often results in loss of security, confidence, relationships, direction, and possessions.
- Healthy coping means dealing with loss, moving on, and changing attitudes.
Strategies for Dealing with Change, 2
- What individuals should do to handle attitude states of change
- What others should do to support during change-related attitude stages
Strategies for Dealing with Change, 3
- Individuals and others should do during stages of exploration, responsibility and commitment.
Characteristics of Burnout
- Excessive demands lead to exhaustion.
- Burnout involves physical, psychological, and spiritual fatigue.
- Physical fatigue involves lack of energy and low vitality.
- Psychological fatigue includes depression and reduced sharpness
- Spiritual fatigue involves loss of interest, meaning, and unhappiness.
Types of Burnout Victims
- Superpeople
- Workaholics
- Burned-out Samaritans
- Mismatched people
- Midcareer coasters
- Overstressed students
Impact of Burnout
- Burnout is a significant problem that affects all people, regardless of background, career, social status.
Steps in the Typical Path to Burnout
- Enthusiasm: High hopes and energy at the start
- Slowdown: Excitement fades, energy wanes.
- Stagnation: Frustration, questioning the value of the task or work.
- Apathy: Exhaustion; decreased performance
Strategies for Dealing with Burnout
- Emergency aid: Deep breathing, positive self-talk, retreat, seeking support.
- Short-term actions: Reduce workload, set priorities, take care of physical well-being, focus on positives.
- Long-term solutions: Clarify values, renew commitments, make lifestyle changes, and develop competencies.
The Leader's Role in Burnout Prevention
- Clarity of mission and vision: Clarify organizational mission, goals, and values, and live them personally.
- Role expectations: Clearly communicate role expectations.
- Healthy environment: Maintain a healthy work environment (physical, safety, and emotional needs).
- Manage workloads: Manage work processes to ensure workloads are neither overloaded nor underloaded.
- Balance change and continuity: Create an effective balance between continuity and change
- Foster belonging and teamwork: Create team spirit and a sense of belonging.
The Leader's Role in Burnout Prevention, 2
- Allow flexibility: Allow flexibility in work pace and style.
- Involvement: Provide opportunity for input on decisions affecting employees.
- Career development: Implement career development policies and activities to support employee growth.
- Assistance in times of need: Provide assistance during stressful times.
Strategies to Help Manage Job Stress
- Maintain safe space: Maintain safe, organized workplace
- Clear goals and expectations: Clearly state work unit goals and expectations.
- Evaluate workload: Evaluate workload and deadlines.
- Regular reviews: Provide regular reviews, feedback, and recognition
- Be patient with employee problems: Provide patience, understanding, and support to deal with employee problems.
- Address differences directly: Deal with personality differences directly
Job Stress
- High rates of workplace stress
- Managers are more likely than other workers to report high stress.
- Job stress is a major source of stress for individuals in America.
- Unwanted job loss is very stressful.
Sources of Stress
- New technology
- Workforce diversity
- Global competition
- Organizational restructuring
- Changing work systems
Occupational Overload and Underload
- Optimal Job Performance: occurs when stress levels are moderate rather than extremely high or low.
- Overload stress comes from excessive pressure, conflict, and frustration
- Underload stress involves boredom, lack of meaning, and low job satisfaction
Stress at Work and Public Policy
- Most workers are capable of managing stress
- Job stress syndrome exists.
- Well-designed jobs, assessment tools, and worker/manager training can help prevent job stress and improve well-being.
Work Behavior That Leads to the Karoshi Syndrome
- Extremely long hours
- Night work interfering with recovery
- Working without holidays or breaks
- High-pressure work without breaks
- Very demanding physical labor without relief
Women, Work, and Stress
- Home demands combined with job demands causes stress for female workers.
- Women with young children are one of the fastest growing segments of the workforce.
- Little reduction in domestic responsibilities for working women.
- Some employers support working mothers with various programs.
Results of Executive Monkey Studies
- Stress, responsibility, and decision-making, without adequate support can lead to death
- Executive-type monkeys are more likely to have ulcers, and experience high levels of stress.
Results of the Weiss Study
- Animals with feedback about their behavior on tasks adapted more successfully
- Feeling out of control leads to overwhelming stress.
Job Stress Interventions
- Primary prevention: Correct fundamental causes by changing work conditions and environment (occupational safety, physical work comfort, work design).
- Secondary prevention: Identify and address illness early (stress education, health assessments, wellness programs).
- Tertiary prevention: Treat conditions to lessen their impact on functioning (medical treatment, employee assistance programs).
Wellness Programs
- Level I: Basic wellness programs (newsletters, health fairs, posters, classes)
- Level II: Specific training (physical conditioning methods)
- Level III: Environmental support for healthy lifestyle (environment for sustaining healthy lifestyle).
The Stress-Resistant Person
- Adaptive capacity to navigate adversity
- Hardy individuals who can handle significant tasks without deteriorating health
- Confidence, comfortable in any situation
- Controlled sense of strength
- Balanced life
- Ability to overcome adversity
Developing Resilience
- Based on five hardy personality characteristics
- Personal commitment
- Sense of control
- Positive attitude
- Balanced perspective
- Caring relationships
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This quiz explores the dynamics of change in the workplace, emphasizing leadership roles, burnout management, and personality traits that aid adaptation. Participants will learn about various types of organizational changes, such as structural, technological, and interpersonal, as well as the implications of downsizing and its effects on employees. Test your knowledge on effective change management strategies.
