4. Task
• Yerkes-Dodson law asserts that a certain level of stress is
necessary to induce high work motivation and performance.
Identify the implications of this assertion and the problems
associated with putting it into practice.
• Compare and contrast the stressors that might be experienced
by an assembly-line worker and the chief executive of a
company.
5. Task …
• As a senior manager, what steps would you take to help
improve the quality of working life for your staff?
• Make a list of the things that cause stress for you. Stressors
might involve university (e.g. living with people that you do
not get on with, etc.) work (e.g., financial pressures, conflict
between work schedules and university work, etc.), and/or
personal problems (e.g., missing family and
friends, relationship problems, etc.). Try to be specific as
possible.
• Reflect and write down the differing ways that you cope with
these pressures?
