More Than Likely, You Will Experience Stress in Your Career

question 57

Essay

More than likely, you will experience stress in your career as a manager. Stress is a physiological and emotional response to external stimuli, but there is a point beyond which good stress goes bad. Write a short essay in which you contrast two types of stress-challenge stress and threat stress-and give examples from your own life that illustrate each type of stress.

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Definitions:

Marginal Utility

The additional satisfaction a consumer gains from consuming one more unit of a good or service.

Income

The money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments.

Risk-averse

Describes individuals or entities that prefer to avoid risks and would opt for a sure thing over a gamble with a potentially higher payoff.

Researcher

An individual engaged in systematic investigation to establish facts or principles or to collect information on a subject.