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Job-stress and middle and senior managementStatistically, an inordinately disproportionate number of people working in senior and middle management come to us for help and advice, often after they have experienced a slow-stress trauma crisis. This supports our model that changes how many organisations deal with health-related issues. Application from a clinical viewpoint to the pressures on middle and senior managers - some would say clear innovation – is long overdue and only this Institute is able, in-house, to take learning from clinical observation and create realistic, strategic programmes within the commercial model. How slow-stress forms: Comparing actors in rehearsal with industry managers in change. Actors show very similar symptoms to stressed middle and senior managers in industries undergoing change and, once upon a time, these reactions by actors were put down to “nerves”, which were largely associated with fatigue and fears about line-learning failure. This study is showing, though, that there seem to be many more parallels centred on the fact that both managers and actors have to rôle-play in a very complex and convincing manner, and that, additionally, the processes involved in creating behaviours and attitudes that others see as “in keeping” with a rôle/character seem to produce a particular type of response pattern. From this we may be able to learn much about how slow-stresses develop. It is possible that actors may experience in weeks stress commonly building in managers over years. If so, we can study the development of these potentially fatal symptoms much more safely and easily using actors temporarily stressed for an upcoming performance, rather than, as in the manager, permanently anxious over very long periods. We hope to further this study by working with actors proficient in improvised character development since this seems to provide potentially the most viable imitation of management stress greatly accelerated.
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Research areasJob-stress in the public sector
Job-stress in the banking & finance sector When & how job-stress should be reported
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