Exploring Job Stress Among Home Care Workers During Covid-19
The Corona Virus illness, also known as Covid-19, has changed mankind's way of life across the world. The new standards are causing tension among home care workers. Therefore, this study was conducted to explore job stress among home care workers during COVID-19 pandemic. Factors of job stre...
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| Format: | Final Year Project Report |
| Language: | English English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
2021
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37715/1/Sharifah%20Nurhafizah%20%2824pgs%29.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37715/4/Sharifah%20Nurhafizah%20%28fulltext%29.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37715/ |
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| Summary: | The Corona Virus illness, also known as Covid-19, has changed mankind's way of life across
the world. The new standards are causing tension among home care workers. Therefore, this
study was conducted to explore job stress among home care workers during COVID-19
pandemic. Factors of job stress, individual, and organizational strategies and influence of job
stress among home care workers differs from one person to another. There were 5 informants
who participated in this study. This study involved 3 home care facilities in Kuching, Sarawak
which are Jasper Lodge Kuching, Premier Nursing Home and Eden on the Park Nursing Care
Residence. There are 4 research questions were structured based on objective as the interview
guideline for data collection through semi-structured interview and focus group discussion.
Content analysis was conducted to answer the research questions and produce the final result
of the report. The findings showed that there were various factors of job stress experienced by
the home care employees during this pandemic. Based on the findings, it showed that both
individual and organizational were aware of job stress issue during this pandemic. They had
implemented some strategies to overcome the issue. The findings also showed the influence of
job stress to the home care workers’ job productivity. At the end of this study, it can be
concluded that this research meets all research objectives which were suggested previously. |
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