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A Theoretical Approach: the Worker's task Stress and its Association with Job Performance

  • KIM, Ji-Hye (Department of Medical Administration and Psychotherapy, Donga University)
  • Received : 2021.04.10
  • Accepted : 2021.09.16
  • Published : 2021.10.30
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Abstract

Purpose: Purpose - This study investigates and aims to discuss regarding the employee's work stress and its relationship with employee's workability based on literature content analysis. Finally, this study will provide how employees can manage it and coexist while enjoying the benefits of a stress-free working environment. Research design, data, and methodology - The author collected many textual contexts from mostly peer-reviewed academic journals, which means that academic comprehensive integrity can be obtained by qualitative approach for this study with discussing and following a constructive review analysis. The content analysis aims to determine a textural dataset in the longtime frame from the newest textural information. Result - There is little doubt that this study was significant and relevant to the relationship between employee work stress and workability, indicating how organizations that manage their employees in a stress-free working environment. the present researcher separate the solutions into five categories according to the person or body responsible for the answers. Conclusion - The numerous solutions on how to deal with various stresses, the theoretical aspect of the solutions involving the theories developed by multiple past articles on how to solve work stress. In general, workability and work stress is a very large field of study. Another consideration is the numerous professionalisms in the world, and each has different ways stress is induced in the organization.

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