Although extensive scholarly and practical attention has been paid to workplace stress in cross-cultural settings over … the past decades, the comparative studies on workplace stress management between Chinese and German companies remain … elusive. To fill this research gap, a comparative study on stress management at the workplace between Chinese and German …

activities by facilitating more flexible organisational structures in firms. We distinguish between functional flexibility (the … ability of workers to co-operate and take decentralised decisions) and numerical flexibility (the reduction of fixed costs …, mainly due to outsourcing business processes). Our results from a large and representative data set of firms in Germany show …