Two recent college graduates join the same major newspaper as journalists. Both work long hours and have tight deadlines for completing their stories. They are under constant pressure to scout out new leads and be the first to report new controversies. One journalist is increasingly fatigued and despondent and has taken several days of sick leave.
The other is getting the work done and seems to enjoy the challenges. Use your knowledge of stress to explain why these two journalists are reacting differently to the their jobs.Evaluate what an organization can do to help maximize the potential of its employees in this type of situation. Be sure to city your sources in APA formatting. Your researched response is due Day 2.
Interaction, discussion and engagement with your peers is expected throughout the week. In order to survive in today’s business world, it is important to have or acquire some survival skills in the environment that we work in, it is also important to be flexible in such a way that when a challenging situation occurs or happens we are ready to withstand it and also do our best to survive and not give up.Out text defines stress as an adaptive response to a situation that is perceived as challenging or threatening to the person’s well-being. A physiological and psychological condition that prepares us to adapt to hostile or noxious environmental conditions (Mcshane & Von Glinow, 2001).
In the given example we can see that the two students clearly had different ways of managing their stress. The student who took a sick leave experienced a psychological consequence as a result.The student became dissatisfied, burned out and eventually gave up and took a sick leave. His behavior also changed because his work performance decreased as described in the text, the student made poor decisions in response to the stressor he faced. On the other hand the other student was able to withstand the stressors and that motivated him to work even harder, he adapted in a positive way while going through stress he was able to make something positive out of the situation by increasing his work performance and enduring.The student who got work done is exactly what most employers are looking for now our days.
It is important that employees develop techniques and learn to manage stressors at work because that really shows how much they want the job and how working they truly are. Our text also mentions various ways of improving our emotional intelligence such as aptitudes and skills, it also says that emotional intelligence can be learned through coaching and also comes with age and maturity (Mcshane & Von Glinow, 2001).In this case, it can be assumed that the student who took a sick leave has not figured out ways to improve his emotional intelligence, and that he has not developed tactics to withstand the environment while his friend has found ways to quickly mature and develop ways to better survive into his environment. Mcshane, S.
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