A Supervisor’s Support is Better than Medicine When Workers are Stressed Out

DENVER - June 24, 2013 - PRLog -- A Supervisor’s Support is Better than Medicine When Workers are Stressed Out: Westside Behavioral examines workplace stress

Job stress can cause headaches, stomach aches, fatigue, and all manner of physical and psychological problems, a factor contributing to the loss of over $200 billion in absenteeism costs per year in the United States alone. But supportive supervisors can ease the pain quickly and effectively according to a new study from the University of Haifa, about to be published in the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.

The study was run in China and studied 241 workers who reported when they experienced physical complaints, burn-out, absenteeism, and fatigue. The results indicated that supervisors who offered such things as understanding, an adjusted work load or stress management significantly reduced physical complaints and absenteeism.

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