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Managing Human Element at Work

Notes Task Demands: Stress from task demands emerge from the changes enforced on the employees
with respect to demands of their job.

1. Write steps for stress impact of life changes as measured by life change
units.
2. Draw the flow chart for consequences of stress.

Self Assessment
Multiple choice questions:
5. An ideal way of managing stress is one that provides additional ......................... .
(a) benefits (b) result

(c) information (d) None of these.
6. A related method of managing stress is ......................... .
(a) exercise (b) seek help

(c) time management (d) relaxation
7. The physical demands of the workplace can also have a devastating impact on the
mental and physical health of the ......................... .

(a) employees (b) manager
(c) only men (d) only women
8. Role conflict exists when job functions contains .......................... that conflict with one
another.
(a) duties (b) responsibilities
(c) Both of these. (d) None of these.
9. Machine-based assembly lines are an example of .......................... a work environment.
(a) role conflict (b) underload

(c) overload (d) None of these.
10. Life trauma is similar to ......................... .
(a) life stressors
(b) hardiness and optimism

(c) life change
(d) type a personality
Fill in the blanks:
11. The constructive stress gives us .................. to excel in our work and to be creative.
12. Stress in our daily life is the result of many .................. factors.

13. An experience that is .................. for one person may be part of a normal days work for
another.
14. .................. first developed and Popularized the notation of life change as a source of
stress.
15. Stress at the organisational level can emanate from ................. .

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