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  2. Outline of working time and conditions - Wikipedia

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    See Category:Labour law; Collective agreement; Holiday pay; International Labour Organization; Labor rights; Labour law; Leave of absence; Legal working age; List of minimum annual leave by country; Minimum wage; Parental leave; Right to sit; Sick leave; Unemployment benefits; Unemployment extension; Workers' right to access the toilet

  3. Occupational burnout - Wikipedia

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    People who experience a lack of compassionate support in the work environment develop more symptoms of depression and exhaustion disorder than others. Those who experience bullying or conflict in their work develop more depressive symptoms than others, but it is not possible to determine whether there is a corresponding connection for symptoms ...

  4. Directed attention fatigue - Wikipedia

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    Directed attention fatigue (DAF) is a neuropsychological phenomenon that results from overuse of the brain’s inhibitory attention mechanisms, which handle incoming distractions while maintaining focus on a specific task. The greatest threat to a given focus of attention is competition from other stimuli that can cause a

  5. Hostile work environment - Wikipedia

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    Importantly, the hostile work environment is gender neutral, that is, men can sexually harass men or women and women can sexually harass men or women. Likewise, a hostile work environment can be considered the "adverse employment action" that is an element of a whistleblower claim or a reprisal (retaliation) claim under a civil rights statute ...

  6. Occupational stress - Wikipedia

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    Underload: Having work that fails to use a worker's skills and abilities. [59] Workload as a work demand is a major component of the demand-control model of stress. [11] This model suggests that jobs with high demands can be stressful, especially when the individual has low control over the job.

  7. Psychosocial hazard - Wikipedia

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    A psychosocial hazard or work stressor is any occupational hazard related to the way work is designed, organized and managed, as well as the economic and social contexts of work. Unlike the other three categories of occupational hazard ( chemical , biological , and physical ), they do not arise from a physical substance, object, or hazardous ...

  8. Industrial and organizational psychology - Wikipedia

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    Work motivation reflects the energy an individual applies "to initiate work-related behavior, and to determine its form, direction, intensity, and duration" [111] Understanding what motivates an organization's employees is central to I-O psychology. Motivation is generally thought of as a theoretical construct that fuels behavior.

  9. Boreout - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms of boreout lead employees to adopt coping or work-avoidance strategies that create the appearance that they are already under stress, suggesting to management both that they are heavily "in demand" as workers and that they should not be given additional work: "The boreout sufferer's aim is to look busy, to not be given any new work by the boss and, certainly, not to lose the job."