U$.$S$.$ employees work harder now than ever before, and almost $83\%$ report regularly experiencing job$-$related stress symptoms. Stress costs organizations an estimated $$300$ billion a year in lost productivity, accidents, and absenteeism$.$ This activity is important because managers can help to decrease unnecessary workplace stressors, and can help employees to experience fewer stress symptoms, if they are attuned to the sources from which workplace stress can manifest.

The goal of this activity is to challenge your knowledge of the seven sources of work$-$related stress.

For each person, select the source of job$-$related stress that his or her example best depicts.

Cedrick tends to worry about things in his life, regardless of what's going on in his job or whether he is facing anything ohiertivelv atressful.

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Chien$-$Shiuna has to miss his daughter's softball game because he is committed to a work meeting.

Lourdes works as a barista at a very busy campus Starbucks location.

Daniel feels anxiety every morning on his commute to work thinking about the fact that he will be spending the next $8$ hours with his coworkers who are neither kind nor helpful to one another.