US. employees work harder now than ever before, and almost 75 percent report regularly experiencing job-related stress symptoms. Stress costs organizations an estimated $30 billion a year in lost productivity, and hundreds of billions a yeor if you include health care costs and absenteeism. This activity is important because managers can help to decrease unnecessary workploce stressors, and can heip empioyees to experience fewer stress symptoms, if they are attuned to the sources from which workplace stress can manifest. The goal of this activity is to challenge your knowiedge of the six sources of work-felated stress. For cach person, select the source of job-relited stress that his or her example best dopicts. 1. Cedrick tends to worry about things in his life, regardless of what's going on in his job or whether he is focing abything objectively stressfuli. 2 Chien-shlung has to miss his daughter's softball game because he is committed to a work meeting. 3. Lourdes works as a barista at a very busy campus Starbucks locotion. 4. Danilo feels anxiety every morning on his commule to work thinking about the foct that he will be spending the next 8 hours with his coworkers who are neither kind nor helptul to one another 5. Ang manages the front desk at a New York City hotel and has to pretend that he is happy and cheerful all day long, oven when customers are rude to him or his employees. 6. Norman works a full-time 8 to 5 job but also does consulting work on the side. He is stressed trying to decide whether he should take two days off from his fullitime job, thus putting himself behind on tasks, in order to take advantage of a lucrative consuleing opportunity. 4. Danilo feeis ansiety every morning on his coromute to work thinking about the fact that he will bo spend ing the next 8 hours with his coworkers who aro nether lind not helphut to one aniethef: 5. Ang manages the front desk at a New York City hotel and has to pretend that he is happy and cheerful all day long. even when customers are rude to him or his employees. 6. Norman works a full-time 8105 job but also does consulting work on the side. He is stressed trying to decide whether he should take two days off trom his fustime job, thus putting himsert bohind on tasks, in order to take advantage of a tucrative consulting oboortinity. 7. Teris direct supervisor often ignores subordinates' concerns, manipulates others to get ahesd, and engages in unethical behavior. 8. Violets's oflice feels ovorly stimulating to her. There are too many poople crammed into the spoce, the averhead fluorescent lighting causes her daly headaches. and there are no walls to provide any quiet or privacy for employees. 9. Ahmed's company expects its employoes to bo avallable 24 hours a day. Last woek he spont the weekend hiking with friphds but was an his bhone responding to emals halr the time. He knew that if he igoored the emals his boss would reprimand him on Monday. 10. Farrah is alwars on the go. She keeps a to-do fat for everything. speed walks between meetings, and often feels impatient. 11. Devisha's manager tends to assign projects without giving much explanation for how employees' performance will be evaluatod. Devisha is experiencing work stress because she has no idea whether she is performing well or not and won't be sure unta her annual teratuetion: 12. Philip and his spouse just adopted a buby. Philp is taking a month of paternity leave, and because of this he knows he will ikely miks out on beloc assioned to a project that he was looking forward to working on. Devisha is experiencing work stress beca evaluation. (Click to select) Demands created by individual differences Individual task demands Individual role demands ed a bab ject tha