Models on Stress at Work

[marcia.cuadra@usach.cl]

Hi, my name is Marcia, Im a Chilean Student of a Master in Industrial Engineering
and Im doing my thesis in a dynamic system model about stress at work,
considering psychological, social and biological variables.

I want to know if: Are there dynamic system models (simulation models) related
with stress, or stress at work, or something like that?

Bye.
From: marcia.cuadra@usach.cl

["Michael Bean"]

Hi Marcia,

We developed a project management simulation that shows team stress, morale, and
productivity based on decisions that a project or team leader makes such as time
spent communicating with the team, time spent coaching individual team members,
delegating personal tasks to the team, and setting stretch goals.

You can run the simulation at:
http://www.forio.com/lead.htm

The work is a combination of the traditional system dynamics project management
simulations and Tom DeMarcos books about project and team management.

Michael
_______________________________________
Forio Business Simulations
Michael Bean
mbean@forio.com
www.forio.com

[Alan Graham]

Hi Marcia,

Have a look at: Cooper, Kenneth G. (1994). The $2,000 Hour: How Managers
Influence Project Performance through the Rework Cycle. Project Management
Journal, March 1994. He discusses workload- and overtime-related stress and
its direct and indirect effects on technical (design and construction) work.

cheers,

alan

Alan K. Graham, Ph.D.
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[Jack Homer]

Hi Marcia,
See my paper "Worker burnout: a dynamic model with implications for
prevention and control," SD Review 1:1, 1985, which includes a model listing
(only 18 equations).
You may also want to contact Prof. Ralph Levine at Michigan State who has
studied psychological systems for many years.
- Jack Homer
From: Jack Homer <jhomer@comcast.net>

[Rod MacDonald]

Hello Marcia,

You might want to look at the work that Jack Homer has done on worker
burnout. The citation follows:

Jack B. Homer (1985). "Worker Burnout: A Dynamic Model with Implications for
Prevention and Control." System Dynamics Review (1)1: 42-62.

Also, the model can be found in the modeling library that Tom Fiddman keeps
at:

http://www.sd3.info/


Good Luck,
Rod MacDonald
Albany, New York
From: Rod MacDonald <Rod@isdps.org>

["Brian Dangerfield"]

Marcia:

A well-known paper is by Jack Homer "Worker Burnout: a dynamic
model with implications for prevention & control"

System Dynamics Review Vol 1 No 1 Summer 1985.

Best

Brian.
From: "Brian Dangerfield" <B.C.Dangerfield@salford.ac.uk>


Prof Brian Dangerfield
Professor of Systems Modelling &
Executive Editor, System Dynamics Review
Centre for OR & Applied Statistics
Faculty of Business & Informatics
Maxwell Building
University of Salford
SALFORD M5 4WT
U.K.
Tel: 44 161 295 5315
Fax: 44 161 295 2130

["Deborah Campbell"]

Marcia,

Agata Sawicka and I developed a model that combines Jack Homers "Worker
Burnout" model and a traditional project management model to consider
the impact of stress on individual and project performance (and this
performance on stress) over the course of several team projects. The
model has been written about in "Facilitating Learning in System
Dynamics Practice", a paper in the Proceedings of the 2001 International
Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Atlanta, Georgia.

While the paper focuses primarily on the learning environment that was
created around the model (the idea was to teach people how stress
impacts performance in a project management context), it can give you
some introductory information about the model. If as a result you would
be interested in learning more, you are welcome to contact me directly.

Best regards,
Deborah Campbell

deborah-campbell@attbi.com