This article provides information on organizational approaches to
managing stress in the library workplace; defines stress as a person's
psychological and physiological response to the perception of a demand
or challenge; develops the concepts of stressors and coping strategies;
and emphasizes the importance of library personnel officers, administrators,
and managers knowing the dynamics of stress in the lives of
individual workers and having awareness of the important sources of
stress in the library workplace. The discussion also treats strategies for
reducing stressors, assisting staff members in developing good stress
management, and helping the employee who is at risk of burnout.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Allerton Park Institute (29th : 1987)
ISSN
0536-4604
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1667
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