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Article: Practicing conflict management can reduce organizational stress.
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- Industrial Management
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
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Reorganization, downsizing, and budget cuts are familiar words to managers these days. As a result of organizational shifts, managers are experiencing new demands of changing roles and modified work expectations. Individuals often respond to these demands with negative stress reactions such as anxiety, difficulty sleeping, tiredness, and irritability.
Negative stress reactions are avoidable. According to Hans Seyle, a renowned scholar of stress management, stress is experienced when individuals question whether they have the resources to respond to the demands or changes they face. If they perceive the gap between demands and resources as too big, they may feel ...