Job stress: Pressure as motivator and menace
A Odessa College psychologist and local experts discuss healthy versus harmful job stress. They highlight triggers like deadlines and unemployment, and offer strategies such as environment changes, time management, five minute breaks, relaxed attitude, improved communication, and seeking schedule or role adjustments.
Work Family Conflicts Measurable by New PRO FILES Inventory
In Stillwater Oklahoma Dr David Fournier of Oklahoma State University describes a 200 item inventory called PRO FILES to measure how family issues influence work performance including productivity attention job satisfaction and workplace relationships and how work problems recur at home creating a cycle of stress. JoAnn Englebrecht notes the tool can quantify conflicts such as child care problems and spousal arguments and their varying effects on daily life.
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Joe
Mike Raley
Odessa College
Raley
Barbara DeShong
Austin
Stillwater
Okla
David Fournier
College of Home Economics
Oklahoma State University
Fournier
JoAnn Englebrecht
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