Stress, Coping, and Corporate Stress Management: A Review

This article provides a theoretical overview of stress and coping in the corporate environment. The article commences with a brief overview of the historical development of the stress concept, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of coping with stress. Subsequently, various factors that contribute to stress in the work-place are considered. This is followed by a discussion of stress that is specific to the executive employee and a review of recent research conducted on corporate stress management. Some of the difficulties experienced in researching stress management programmes are briefly considered. The article concludes with an attempt to illustrate, from reported findings, which stress-reducing interventions are effective and which are not. III Stellenbosch University http://scholar.sun.ac.za