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Strategies For Managing Work-Related Stress In The Petroleum Industry, Esang Lazarus Esitikot
Strategies For Managing Work-Related Stress In The Petroleum Industry, Esang Lazarus Esitikot
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
High work-related stress negatively impacts workers’ health and productivity in the Nigerian petroleum industry. Supervisors in the Nigerian petroleum industry who lack strategies to reduce work-related stress significantly lose worker health and organizational productivity. Grounded in person-environment fit theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies Nigerian petroleum industry supervisors use to manage work-related stress. Participants were six supervisors who have successfully used strategies to reduce work-related stress in the Nigerian petroleum industry. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and internal company documents relevant to reducing work-related stress and analyzed using thematic analysis. Three major …