ACCA Applied Knowledge · Business and Technology · Personal effectiveness
Which of the following is an organisational (as opposed to individual) approach to reducing employee stress?
Redesigning jobs to give employees more control over how they work is an organisational approach, because the employer changes the work environment to remove a source of stress. Exercise and breathing techniques are individual coping strategies that employees adopt themselves rather than organisational measures.
- ARedesigning jobs to give employees more control over how work is doneCorrect
- BAn employee taking up regular exercise
- CAn employee learning breathing techniques
Explanation
Job redesign giving more control is an action the organisation takes to remove a cause of stress. Exercise and breathing techniques are personal coping strategies undertaken by the individual.
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