Organizational Stress in Health Sector: Causal Factors Stress, the Responses and Determining the Coping Methods with Stress

The concept of stress we encounter in both social and organizational life has a profound effect on workers in terms of their performance and on organizations in terms of its structure and function. This concept, today considered to be one of the overall characteristics of modern society, is defined as an attempt to orient to a stimulatant leading to psychological and physical stress on a worker. Factors leading to organizational stress, responses and coping methods are varied and negative outcomes such as absence, increase in the labour force shift proportion, decrease in performance, efficacy and quality, increase in complaints and disorders in workers etc. as a result of stress. Just like in many other sectors, organizational stress threaten the health sector workers and has several individual and organizational influences. In the light of these explanations, this study, conducted in Niğde and Bursa cities, aims to determine the factors leading to organizational stress among workers, their responses to these stresses, and their methods to cope with stress. A questionnaire method was employed and various results concerning the factors leading to stress, the way of response and coping by the nurses were obtained.

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Organization ، Stress ، Organizational stress and health sector