Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- PART I CURRENT APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF CAREERS
- PART II NEW IDEAS FOR THE STUDY OF CAREERS
- Introduction to Part II
- 11 People as sculptors versus sculpture: the roles of personality and personal control in organizations
- 12 Work, stress, and careers: a preventive approach to maintaining organizational health
- 13 Re-visioning career concepts: a feminist invitation
- 14 Reciprocity at work: the separate, yet inseparable possibilities for individual and organizational development
- 15 Career improvisation in self-designing organizations
- 16 Organization career systems and employee misperceptions
- 17 Blue-collar careers: meaning and choice in a world of constraints
- 18 A political perspective on careers: interests, networks, and environments
- 19 Rites of passage in work careers
- 20 Pin stripes, power ties, and personal relationships: the economics of career strategy
- 21 Rhetoric in bureaucratic careers: managing the meaning of management success
- 22 The internal and external career: a theoretical and cross-cultural perspective
- PART III FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAREER THEORY
- Name index
- Subject index
12 - Work, stress, and careers: a preventive approach to maintaining organizational health
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- PART I CURRENT APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF CAREERS
- PART II NEW IDEAS FOR THE STUDY OF CAREERS
- Introduction to Part II
- 11 People as sculptors versus sculpture: the roles of personality and personal control in organizations
- 12 Work, stress, and careers: a preventive approach to maintaining organizational health
- 13 Re-visioning career concepts: a feminist invitation
- 14 Reciprocity at work: the separate, yet inseparable possibilities for individual and organizational development
- 15 Career improvisation in self-designing organizations
- 16 Organization career systems and employee misperceptions
- 17 Blue-collar careers: meaning and choice in a world of constraints
- 18 A political perspective on careers: interests, networks, and environments
- 19 Rites of passage in work careers
- 20 Pin stripes, power ties, and personal relationships: the economics of career strategy
- 21 Rhetoric in bureaucratic careers: managing the meaning of management success
- 22 The internal and external career: a theoretical and cross-cultural perspective
- PART III FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAREER THEORY
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
STRESS IN A CAREERS CONTEXT
The purpose of this chapter is to apply key stress models and concepts to building career theory. There are several reasons why the time is particularly ripe for researchers to consider stress in a careers context: Over time, job stress aggregates to career stress, career events are key sources of stress, and career researchers have not generally tapped the voluminous stress literature in formulating models and empirical research.
First, within stress research, job stress in organizations has emerged as a central focus (Beehr and Bhagat, 1985; Matteson and Ivancevich, 1987; Murphy and Schoenborn, 1987; Sethi and Schuler, 1983; Spector, Dwyer, and Jex, 1988). There are considerable human and organizational costs associated with job stress, including depression and burnout, ulcers, low job satisfaction, absenteeism and turnover, decreased productivity, lawsuits, and health care costs. It has been estimated that job stress costs American industry $150 billion annually in diminished productivity, absenteeism, and medical costs (Landers, 1987). In addition, 15% of worker's compensation claims are now stress related (Dentzer, McCormick, and Tsuruoka, 1986). Job stress as a management problem continues to capture major media attention, as evidenced by a Wall Street Journal special report section on medicine and health with a lead article entitled “Is your job making you sick?” (Bennett, 1988). A recent cover story by Newsweek (Miller, 1988) headlined stress on the job. Jobs are the building blocks of careers. Therefore, over time, stressful job experiences aggregate to yield stressful careers.
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- Handbook of Career Theory , pp. 252 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989
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