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WORK IS DEHUMANIZING:

FOR:

STRESS AT WORK

1. William Foot White’s (1948) weeping waitresses (stress at wor)

Bosama et al Marmot, Schnall and Landberger in the Whitehall studies, found that stress associate with low control in the workplace is linked to coronary heart disease.

Report from BBC News, DOES TECHNOLOGY CAUSE STRESS?

1/3 of the workers feel stressed with technology. For example checking their inbox 40 /hour just to be consistent causes tress

Negative effects of stress:

-Reduced quality of life

-Getting sick more often

-less happier

2. ECONOMIC CRISIS - IMPACT AT WORK

-Higher unemployment rate, job insecurity,

-income and benefits reduction.

-More working hour and less pay.

-More alienations,

-more pressure on employees by managers

-no safe job sectors such as banks and governmental jobs.

-fear of unemployment

-Examples Greece, Spain and Italy.

Alienation

Assembly line

Studies by Mark and Weber 1926: “Alienation is a state or a feeling in which the job is external to the individual”

Geiger and Schweitzer 1981: Alienation gives a feeling of

-powerlessness

-meaninglessness

-self estrangementl

-People work as cogs in a machine

-Don’t see the end result

-Call centers. Working for many hours on a computer with a telephone talking to strangers for many hours a day.

-No sense of purpose

-Part of a production process many hours doing repetitive jobs not seeing the end result

-working at a fast pace, with a lot of stress repetitive pre-studied movements.

-In many countries people work more hours and also in the weekends.

ASSEMBLY LINE

Changes on placing a group of people together on crating a part of a product and they all share the effort and contribution. They see the end result.

-Games at work

-coleagues, joining together to share work tasks

WORK IS DEHUMANIZNG (AGAINST)

STRESS

Stress can be your friend. It’s all in the mind according to Kelly Gonigal.

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