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Objectives and competences

The student will: - Know the characteristics of stress at personal and group levels. - Understand methods of stress management. - The student will be aware of uncertainty as a stressor. - Know the impact of education as a way to prevent and manage stress.

Content (Syllabus outline)

The paradigm of stress • Sources of stress • Types of stress • Phases of stress Stress on workplaces/ professional stress • Stress factors (psychological, environmental, social)Stress and uncertainty / psychological, physiological and behavioural consequences of stress • Burn-out on workplace • Costs as a consequence of stress • Models of occupational stress management • Education and training for prevention and Management of occupational stress (on the level of an individual) • The role of the organization • Intervision as a technique for stress prevention • Aversive effects of occupational stress Stress management on group level • Supervision as a technique for stress prevention • Social support as a form of stress treatment - treating occupational stress - social support as a form of treatment-

Learning and teaching methods

Lectures Case studies Project work on cases

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course, students will be able to: - Describe the basic concepts related to stress in organisations. - Differentiate between the presence of stress and its agents at personal and organisational levels. - Apply appropriate methods to reduce and manage stress.

Readings

Leitch, Matthew (2017). Approach to stress management: why uncertinity causes stress and rension and how to stop it., http://www.workinginuncertainty.co.uk/stress.shtml Peters, Achim, Bruce,, S. McEvans, F., & Fristton, K. (2017). Uncertainty and stress: Why it causes diseases and how it is mastered by the brain. Progress in Neurobiology, Volume 156, Pages 164-188. Bukovec, Boris (2008). Nova paradigma obvladovanja sprememb. Fakulteta za uporabne družbene študije, Nova Gorica. Terry A. Beehr (1995). Psychological stress in workplace. London Routledge. Ovsenik Marija, & Ambrož, Milan (2011). Celovitost in neznatnost organizacije. Ljubljana: Institut za management

Prerequisits

No prerequisites.

  • red. prof. dr. IZTOK PODBREGAR

  • Oral examination: 70
  • Seminar paper: 30

  • : 45
  • : 30
  • : 100

  • Slovenian
  • Slovenian

  • CRISIS MANAGEMENT - 2nd