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ORGANIZATIONAL STRESS THROUGH THE LENS OF CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES (COR) THEORY
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We examined how Conservation of Resources (COR) theory has been applied to work and stress in organizational settings. COR theory has drawn increasing interest in the organizational literature. It is both a stress and motivational theory that outlines how individuals and organizations are likely to be impacted by stressful circumstances, what those stressful circumstances are likely to be, and how individuals and organizations act in order to garner and protect their resources. To date, individual studies and meta-analyses have found COR theory to be a major explanatory model for understanding the stress process at work. Applications of COR theory to burnout, respite, and preventive intervention were detailed. Studies have shown that resource loss is a critical component of the stress process in organizations and that limiting resource loss is a key to successful prevention and post-stress intervention. Applications for future work, moving COR theory to the study of the acquisition, maintenance, fostering, and protection of key resources was discussed.
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“Consistent with these principles, the Conservation of Resources theory [33, 34] conceptualises burnout as an over-depletion of energy resources resulting from prolonged exposure to job stress without adequate periods of recovery.”
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- Authors
- Westman, M., Hobfoll, S. E., Chen, S., Davidson, O. B., & Laski, S.
- Venue
- Research in Occupational Stress and Well-being
- Publisher
- Emerald (MCB UP )
- Published
- 2004-10-27
- Pages
- 167-220
- ISSN
- 1479-3555 (ISSN-L)
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- W2485049016
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- 334
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- FWCI
- 2.41
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Research in occupational stress and well being (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Workplace Health and Well-being
- Keywords
- conservation of resources theory, organizational stress, occupational stress, resource loss, burnout, respite, stress prevention, stress interventions, motivation
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