Job stress could affect the employees health to cause major health problems like a heart attach, ulcers, or stroke. Their are ways to prevent this from happening which would save companies lots of money. This could be through management or supervisors, or through providing employee lecture or training in coping with stress. Management and A Supervisors Role in Coping with Stress Management and Supervisors can help cut done on stress by recognizing the common sources of distress, which are role conflict, role ambiguity and workload variance. Role conflict occurs when a subordinate receives a competing and conflicting expectations from others.
Ambiguity occurs from role compounding, which results from unclear expectations.
Work variance applies to the employee that they are challenge to meet the spin in their work load assignments. Balancing this pendulum involves dealing with overload and underload. Role overload is having mores expectation than one is able to fulfill. Being overloaded can lead to emotional and physical problems that will eventually effect job performance. Role underload can be distressful to employees because their assignments are mechanistic and boring.