What is it about?
In today's fast-paced workplaces, where employees face high production demands and fear of losing important job features, we explored how these stressors impact workers. Our study with 176 U.S. workers illustrates how various stress factors in fast-paced workplaces combine and result in negative effects on employees.
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Why is it important?
The results revealed that both the pressure to produce quickly and shared concerns about job security among workers were linked to increased cognitive problems at work, which, in turn, led to more workplace injuries. Importantly, when employees experienced both high production pressure and job insecurity, they encountered even more cognitive issues.
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This highlights the compounding effect of these job stressors on employees' ability to think clearly and their overall workplace health.
Hyun Jung Lee
Washington State University
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This page is a summary of: Production pressure, cognitive failures, and injuries under an insecure job climate., International Journal of Stress Management, December 2023, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/str0000315.
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