Stress in the workplace: a comparison of gender and occupations

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Job stress encountered by clerks, university professors and sales associates has been studied through an open-ended method used first by Newton and Keenan in 1985. Subjects were asked to describe a stressful event at work during the previous month that made them anxious, annoyed or upset. Results showed that clerks and sales associates had higher stress levels than academic professors. There are some common stresses, such as interpersonal conflict, time wasters and work overload, which are present in all the occupational groups.

Business Personnel Management, Psychological aspects, Human resource management, College teachers, College faculty, Job stress, Sales personnel, Salespeople, Office workers

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Utility estimates of job performance as related to Data, People, and Things parameters of work

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Investigations into the applicability of the Schmidt-Hunter global estimation method of assessing utility across a broad range of jobs showed that the Data, People and Things worker function parameters accounted for 33% of the variance in the inter-rater reliability of the utility estimates. The low inter-rater reliability of the measure is attributed to the ambiguity with which raters perceive the dollar value of each worker attribute included in the rating system.

Employee Evaluation, Employee performance appraisals, Performance appraisals, Job evaluation

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