Existing social stressor concepts disregard the variety of task-related situations at work that require skillful social behavior to maintain good social relationships while achieving certain task goals. In this article, we challenge the view that social stressors at work are solely dysfunctional...

Companies, also financial institutions, realign, redesign, restructure and downsize on anongoing basis, increasing tension in employees to survive in the work environment. Besidescoping with the impact of recessions and layoffs, employees also have to cope with increasedworkloads and the...