The Impact of Stress on Older Employees and their Work Engagement
Keywords:
stress in the workplace, older employees, work engagementAbstract
The main objective of the paper is to determine the impact of stress at the workplace on work engagement of older employees in Slovenia. We conducted a survey among 1086 older employees. The research is based on the implementation of a factor analysis by which we wanted to reduce the large number of variables to a smaller number of factors with which we performed a simple linear regression. Based on the results, we confirmed the hypothesis that stress in the workplace has a statistically significant negative impact on work engagement of older employees in Slovenia. Stress is a possible trigger of many illnesses, resulting in long-term sick leave, unengaged employees and premature retirement of employees. Well-being in the workplace of age diverse employees is a key for long-term effectiveness in health organisations. Employers should apply appropriate measures to reduce stress as well as contribute to employees’ well-being and better workplace performance.
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