Workplace Stressors and Structural Conditions

This week’s topics

Workplace Stressors and Structural Conditions

1. Role ambiguity, conflict, and overload
2. Toxic leadership and poor organisational climate
3. Organizational injustice and low autonomy
4. Adverse physical working environments
5. HR People Pod – Ep 39: Rewriting the rules on workplace conflict - with David Liddle
6. Equity Theory - Organizational Psychology Lecture 7.7

What you will be able to do

• 2.1 Analyse typical stressful conditions for people in the workplace in an organisation context.
• 2.2 Evaluate the relevance of factors emanating from the workplace in the context of stress in an organisation.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse typical stressful conditions for people in the workplace in an organisation context.

Study materials

Videos

• HR People Pod – Ep 39: Rewriting the rules on workplace conflict - with David Liddle · YouTube · CIPD · 31 min · for registered students
• Equity Theory - Organizational Psychology Lecture 7.7 · YouTube · Professor Q · 3 min · for registered students
• Stages of Social Conflict - Organizational Psychology Lecture 15.5 · YouTube · Professor Q · 10 min · for registered students

Further resources

• Workplace stress: a collective challenge (ILO, World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2016) · PDF · Ilo, report; 63 pages · for registered students
• HSE INDG430: How to tackle work-related stress · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
• Organizational Behavior, ch. 18: Stress and Well Being · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 525–556 · for registered students