Stress Related Illness

Paper Summary:

In this article, the writer discusses the issue of stress-related illness cases experienced by an employee during his professional association with a company. The writer discusses legislation implemented with the intention of ensuring that people are not made ill by their jobs. The writer then looks at causes for mental stress within a company. The writer maintains that numerous studies have corroborated the strong inverse relationship that exists between unemployment and labor turnover rates. The writer concludes that this relationship extends to poor performers, who exhibit a much greater tendency to quit their jobs if external job opportunities are plentiful, and discriminatory practices are permitted.

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Introduction
Stress Generation: Work Place Discrimination
Racial Discrimination at Workplace
Workplace: Discrimination against Foreign Nurses

From the Paper:

"The companies throughout North America have realized that their failure was attributed with the collapse of its supply chain system, the further investigation revealed that the failure of the supply chain system was associated with the flaws and irregularities reported within the system based upon discriminatory practices, it was observed that the poor implementation of the entire system was responsible for the debacle, therefore the company took the counter measures to subdue the impact of the system that was based upon the system of discriminatory practices, it was also observed that the lack of support and lack of coordination between the upper and lower category employees was also responsible for the failure, the failure resulted in the overall deterioration of the performance previously marked and achieved by the employees, the employees complained of discriminatory attitude and mental trauma which they experienced under the might of individual authority, whose actions deferred from the manifesto of the company. In some of the cases the mental stress was associated with the bullying and racial, sexual harassment from the employers against the employees of different culture and religion, which is the clear violation of the standard practices of merit. The stress and concerns were also built once the subordinates performed miserably, and the company suffered a major jolt, which shook up the entire team of the company. The company also observed increasing stress and mental illness associated with the proactive roles of the particular diversified unions within the system, and minor incidents of racial discrimination were reported, therefore the tensions prevailed because of the incorporation of the diversity within the workforce."

Sample of Sources Used:

• John Upson, David Ketchen, and R. Duane Ireland (2007). Managing Employee Stress: A Key to the Effectiveness of Strategic Supply Chain Management. Organizational Dynamics. Vol. 36.1.
• David Lee (2000). Managing Employee Stress and Safety. Maine Employers Mutual Insurance Company. MEMIC Publication. pp. 23
• Linda H. Aiken, Sean P. Clarke, Douglas M. Sloane, Julie Sochalski, and Jeffrey H. Silber (2002). Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction, JAMA.
• Childre, D., Cryer, B., and McCraty, R. (2003) "Pull the Plug on Stress," Harvard Business Review, July issue.

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