Organizational stress as threat to reputation: effects on anxiety at work and at home

Article Abstract:

This study's premise is that job stressors that threaten an employee's reputation with his or her supervisor are particularly likely to generate anxiety symptoms that carry over from work to home. Thirty-six raters, primarily working accountants, identified job stressors as high or low on threat to reputation. Independently, 102 accountants rated their own exposure to these stressors and their anxiety at work and home. As predicted, the high-threat stressors were the most likely to generate home-experienced anxiety, and work-experienced anxiety served as a key mediator. Implications relating to models of work and family well-being are discussed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Job stress, Anxiety, Prestige

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Explaining organizational responsiveness to work-family issues: the role of human resource executives as issue interpreters

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A multitheoretical approach was used to explore why organizations vary in the degree to which they have adopted policies designed to help employees manage their work and family lives. Our findings indicate that: (1) significant differences existed across industries in work-family responsiveness; (2) the percentage of women employed by a company did not explain unique variance in responsiveness; and (3) organizations were more likely to offer benefits when work and family issues were salient to senior human resource staff and thought likely to impact the organization's performance if unaddressed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Human resource management, Management research, Human resource departments

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