From: michael@ecst.csuchico.edu
Date: Fri Jun 20 2008 - 11:46:18 EDT
Frederick Winslow Taylor's Schmidt is a wonderful example. Original Message: ----------------- From: GERALD LEVY gerald_a_levy@msn.com Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:48:57 +0100 To: ope@lists.csuchico.edu Subject: RE: [OPE] Working Overtime Is Linked to Depression, Anxiety > However, dialectically considered, could the causal arrow not be reversed also? Hi Jurriaan: There have been a series of related studies which show that stress and injuries increase rapidly with overtime. These studies confirm that it is overtime which is the cause rather than the efffect. This particular study should not be very surprising since it has long been known that physical and mental stress are related. Other studies have shown that there is a cause-and-effect observable empirical relation between unemployment and other social phenomena such that when unemployment (cause) goes up so do deaths from liver cirrhosis, deaths from fatal heart attacks and strokes, deaths from suicide, increased admissions to mental hospitals, increased admissions to state prisons, increased spousal abuse, increased child abuse, increased substance abuse, increased divorce rates, etc. In solidarity, Jerry -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com – What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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