Stress and Illness in the Workplace

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Associate Level Material Stress and Illness in the Workplace Matrix Use the following table to describe the relationship between stress and health in the workplace and to identify ways to reduce stress in the workplace. If you use additional sources, include citations consistent with APA guidelines. |What is the relationship between stress and health in the workplace? |The relationship between stress and health in the workplace is very strong. Being stressed out because of| | |work can cause you not to like your job, lose sleep at night, become irritated with co-workers, cause | | |headaches, and lower your morale. | |Identify a situation in which you experienced stress in the workplace or provide a |I was a manager at a restaurant at the time. Usually I worked by myself up until an hour before lunch, | |fictional example. |because it was too slow to have any employees there any earlier. This one day my employee was running | | |late. Lunch started and she still was not there. I had a line wrapped all the way out the door and it was| | |only me. It seemed as if the quicker I tried to get them out the longer the line became. I felt so | | |overwhelmed. I wanted to cry. The employee finally arrived in the middle of lunch and I could feel myself| |
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