Essays on Michie

Introduction

Although stress has been found to be normal in some workplaces, excessive stress has been identified as one of the factors that interfere with employee performance and productivity (Interactive, 2011). Additionally, workplace stress affects the emotional and physical health of individuals. Predominantly, the personal ability to manage stress contributes significantly to success in work. Thus, although it is difficult to manage everything in the workplace environment, it does not necessarily mean that one cannot control his or her stress in various workplace situations. Stress in the workplace is not always bad. When an individual is in a comfort zone, ...

Community members risk a great risk of getting themselves hurt at the hands of people prone to violence. The relevance of the study is that it highlights what is instrumental in determining the extent to which mentally ill and violent individuals are likely to pose risk to members of communities, be they prison, hospital or standard civilian groups of people. The literature review will include a board concept of community. Samuel (2015) defined the concept of community as applicable to a human group sharing a geographical area. Following this logic, the notion is possible to apply to patients and ...

Theories of psychology

Understanding psychology in the present times is a complicated affair. There are many approaches that have been upheld by prominent psychologists and social scientist in the study of psychology. The most prominent among all these theories are: behaviorism perspectives, cognitive theory of psychology and structuralism perspective of psychology (McGuire, 2004). These theories hold different views and work on different assumptions and principles. They were founded at different times in history, but bear some similarities. This paper gives brief explanations of all these theories, examples to illustrate them and a brief discussion of the roles of all these theories in psychology today. ...