Appendix A: Stress and Business Activities
When we overwork, we under enjoy.
Susan Jeffers
Looker and Gregson (2010) state that stress is a “mismatch between perceived demands and perceived ability to cope,” which implies that a person has too many demands or too few resources to deal with those demands. Sometimes stress can also stem from few demands, even though this is less common. In other words, stress is a person’s defensive response to a perceived threat from the environment.
Stressed people appraise that they will not be capable of dealing with the stressing factors effectively. Csikszentmihalyi (2002, 2003) states that workers are more prone to become stressed when the level of work required from them is highly challenging as compared ...
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