Teamwork And Stress: A Multilevel Analysis: The Relationship Between Team, And Stress
#1: Team design and stress: A multilevel analysis
Author: Kevin S Cruz
Journal: Human Relations
Year of publication: 2011
Summary
The purpose of the paper was to explore the association between teams and stress, as the existing research was not definitive regarding the relationship between the two. The paper claims that the probable explanation for the conflicting findings with respect to stress is that different team design choices may have differential effects on stress.
A study was performed using a model called the job demands-control model to examine if team autonomy and intrateam interdependence result in stress. The model focused on the interaction between individual job demands and individual job control. By using hierarchical linear …show more content…
As stated in the paper itself, teams in different organisations could be of different types, but the study does not take this into account, thereby assuming that all team work environments are more or less the same, which might not be the case. Also, there is no certainty that the variables mentioned above are the only ones which contribute to team work stress, and hence, there might be other significant factors which this study did not …show more content…
Three hypotheses were tested in this study, and all were supported by the results. The essence of the hypotheses was that burnout is not a compulsory outcome of stress. In fact, burnouts actually depended on the perceived importance of the work the individuals were assigned to. If the individual believed that the work they were doing was important, then there would be lesser burnouts even though there would be a lot of stress. Hence, it can be said that the feeling of doing something significant reduces the chances of burnout even when the work is stressful and demanding.
The study revealed that an increase in work importance led to increased stress and reduced burnouts, hence clearly highlighting that stress in itself is not the cause of burnouts. These findings demonstrated that expatriates are more likely to have a burnout when they feel that their work is insignificant. The positive correlation between stress and importance supports the notion that expatriates view the stress involved in their work as an indication of its
Author: Kevin S Cruz
Journal: Human Relations
Year of publication: 2011
Summary
The purpose of the paper was to explore the association between teams and stress, as the existing research was not definitive regarding the relationship between the two. The paper claims that the probable explanation for the conflicting findings with respect to stress is that different team design choices may have differential effects on stress.
A study was performed using a model called the job demands-control model to examine if team autonomy and intrateam interdependence result in stress. The model focused on the interaction between individual job demands and individual job control. By using hierarchical linear …show more content…
As stated in the paper itself, teams in different organisations could be of different types, but the study does not take this into account, thereby assuming that all team work environments are more or less the same, which might not be the case. Also, there is no certainty that the variables mentioned above are the only ones which contribute to team work stress, and hence, there might be other significant factors which this study did not …show more content…
Three hypotheses were tested in this study, and all were supported by the results. The essence of the hypotheses was that burnout is not a compulsory outcome of stress. In fact, burnouts actually depended on the perceived importance of the work the individuals were assigned to. If the individual believed that the work they were doing was important, then there would be lesser burnouts even though there would be a lot of stress. Hence, it can be said that the feeling of doing something significant reduces the chances of burnout even when the work is stressful and demanding.
The study revealed that an increase in work importance led to increased stress and reduced burnouts, hence clearly highlighting that stress in itself is not the cause of burnouts. These findings demonstrated that expatriates are more likely to have a burnout when they feel that their work is insignificant. The positive correlation between stress and importance supports the notion that expatriates view the stress involved in their work as an indication of its