stress symptoms

• Towards institutional gridlock? The limitations of Germany's consensus democracy.

..., by the early 1980s the first crisis symptoms had started to emerge. The decision of the FDP to ...Political Economy: The German Model Under Stress. In S. Padgett et al. (eds.) Developments in Germa...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 6 Nr. 1, März 2010

• Aging Workforce Management in the Automobile Industry: Defining the Concept and Its Constituting Elements**

This paper presents the results of a grounded theory study on the automobile industry aimed at developing a concept of aging workforce management by identifying and constructing its constituting elements. Through an in-depth research investigation, it answers the question of how the challenge of an aging workforce can be defined, and the related broader managerial issues that arise in the context of one specific industry. Our findings suggest that the quest for 'competitiveness' is the major constituting element of the concept of aging workforce management. Interdependent with this are two secondary elements that encompass the actual challenge: measures that drive competitiveness and symptoms of the aging workforce. Three further 'residual elements' making up the six constituting elemen...

...It is important to stress that these elements, or potential Variables' for s...

• Zeitschrift für Personalforschung
• Band 23 Nr. 1, Januar 2009

• Experience of the Employment Relationship After a Merger**

Mergers and acquisitions create many management challenges. The development of a new employment relationship is one of the problems in such a situation. This paper investigates the influence of previous employment structures and the experience of previous employment relationships on the psychological contract, job satisfaction, job insecurity, and general health of employees in the context of a merged higher education institution. Employees of two previously independent universities that merged into one university completed a questionnaire. The two former universities had a very different history with very dissimilar employment relationships and experiences among personnel. This history influenced the experience of the employment relationship after the merger.

... into account the negative influence of stress due to change, as well as the employmentrelated ex...Four subscales, including somatic symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction, and sev...

• Management Revue
• Band 17 Nr. 4, Oktober 2006

• Employee Participation in Organizational Change: Investigating the Effects of Proactive Vs. Reactive Implementation of Downsizing in Swedish Hospitals**/Mitarbeiterbeteiligung Im Organisationalen Wandel: Die Effekte Proaktiver Vs. Reaktiver Implementierung von Downsizing in Schwedischen Krankenhäusern

Whereas employee participation is generally conceived to facilitate implementation of organizational change, only limited research has investigated whether it may reduce the negative effects of downsizing. This study compares two Swedish hospitals that implemented downsizing in different ways. While there were no major differences in stressors between hospitals, proactive implementation was associated with more employee participation. Moreover, employee participation variables were positively associated with employee work attitudes and well-being at both hospitals. These findings provide insights concerning the importance of a long-term strategic implementation of organizational change.

... of detecting non-psychiatric health symptoms, the items are scored on a four-interval response ...

• Zeitschrift für Personalforschung
• Band 22 Nr. 2, April 2008