Understanding and managing stress in social service organizations.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1978Description: 8p., 6 refsReport number: Institutional/Corporate BodySubject: This article proposes that an organization's ability to manage stress is largely a function of how clearly the organization defines itself as a system. Where organizations are managed as coordinated systems, there are low levels of anxiety and appropriate reactivity to externally imposed stimuli. Organizations that lack this systemic definition tend to maintain chronic levels of anxiety, which in turn form the basis for inappropriately high reactivity to externally imposed stimuli. A possible solution to the problem of managing organizatioanal stress reactions may lie in the design of a Situation Achievement Management System. Such a design would restructure the organization as a more coordinated, more functional system. The article outlines a rationale for this approach, as well as steps in the design process
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Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 302.35 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 005259264 |
Reprint from: Journal of Social Welfare, Fall 1979; pp13-20
This article proposes that an organization's ability to manage stress is largely a function of how clearly the organization defines itself as a system. Where organizations are managed as coordinated systems, there are low levels of anxiety and appropriate reactivity to externally imposed stimuli. Organizations that lack this systemic definition tend to maintain chronic levels of anxiety, which in turn form the basis for inappropriately high reactivity to externally imposed stimuli. A possible solution to the problem of managing organizatioanal stress reactions may lie in the design of a Situation Achievement Management System. Such a design would restructure the organization as a more coordinated, more functional system. The article outlines a rationale for this approach, as well as steps in the design process
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