Which of the following statements is not true regarding organizational approaches to managing stress?
A) With goal-setting in the organization, individuals perform better when they have specific and challenging goals and receive feedback on their progress toward these goals.
B) Redesigning jobs to give employees more responsibility, more meaningful work, more autonomy, and increased feedback can reduce stress.
C) Managers should consider decreasing employee involvement in decision making because evidence clearly shows that decreases in employee empowerment reduce psychological strain.
D) Increasing formal organizational communication with employees reduces uncertainty.
E) Some employees need an occasional escape from the pace of their work.
Question 2
Louise is overwhelmed with the new tasks that she has been assigned after the department merger.
Each day, she arrives at work and makes a list of the new tasks, writes a number next to each one according to the urgency of completion, and schedules a time to complete each one. Although she's still stressed, Louise is able to get most of the work done and feels better at the end of the day. Louise is using ________ techniques to reduce her stress.
A) job enrichment
B) goal setting
C) relaxation
D) time-management
E) job enlargement
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