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Occupational Stress Experiences Introduction Statement of the Problem

The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in occupational stress experienced by managerial and nonmanagerial personnel in organizations. Of specific interest in this study was the stress experienced by the firstlevel supervisor, in comparison to that experienced by subordinates.

Although high levels of organizational stress are present for all employee groupsfrom the Chief Executive Officer to the assembly line workerin contemporary organizational environments in American automobile manufacturing, the stress burden is particularly onerous for firstlevel supervisors. These individuals are at the organizational cuttingedge where the dramatic changes in the industry must be implemented. On the one hand, the firstlevel supervisor must be a representative of organizational policy in effecting sometimes painful change. On the other hand, the firstlevel supervisor must work in concert with production line employees to create an effective and an efficient team. With one foot on each side of the line between management and the workforce, the position of the firstlevel supervisor is one which invites stress even in periods of relative calm. In the contemporary industrial

environment, exceptionally high stress levels affect firstlevel supervisors.

Stress research is traced to the formulation of the general adaptation syndrome in the 1930s by H. Selye (Kaplan, & Sadock, 1987). As a medical student, Selye observed that most sick people appeared to have common characteristics, but that the "sickness syndrome" per se was not being studied (Selye, 1969, pp. 5758). Selye based his theory on the concept of homeostasis, defined as the body's ability to maintain stability or constancy within its living organism. Selye (1950) extended the concept of homeostasis to damage resulting from the interaction of a force, or stressor, and the resistance, or adaptation, to that force.

Selye (...

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