Employers Use Stress Diagnostics to Define Strategy and Guide Action

Investing time and effort to uncover and mitigate today's stressors for employees can help employers avoid tomorrow's more damaging and expensive consequences. A comprehensive assessment of workplace stress can generate a substantial return on this investment, measured in enhanced individu...

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Published in:Benefits quarterly 2017, Vol.33 (1), p.28-32
Main Authors: Davenport, Thomas O, Levin-Scherz, Jeff
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Call centers
Case studies
Diagnostic Tests, Routine - methods
Employee involvement
Employers
Health administration
Humans
Occupational Health
Occupational stress
Occupational Stress - diagnosis
Perceptions
Performance evaluation
Stress measurement
Stress response
Supervisors
Work environment
Workforce planning
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Summary:Investing time and effort to uncover and mitigate today's stressors for employees can help employers avoid tomorrow's more damaging and expensive consequences. A comprehensive assessment of workplace stress can generate a substantial return on this investment, measured in enhanced individual well-being, reduced health care and disability costs and improved company performance. This article discusses the structure of stress diagnostics, the dimensions of those diagnostics, leading and lagging indicators of employee stress and how employers can use diagnostics to take actions that benefit employers and employees alike.
ISSN:8756-1263
2168-3336