Type A people tend to be more aggressive in pursuing their goals, noticeably impatient and very urgent. They always feel the need to double their efforts and speed to achieve their goals. On the other hand, Type B personalities are very cautious, patient, and good at working towards long-term goals, even if the results seem bleak at first. These two different traits react differently to stressful job demands. Although Type As tend to be very good at meeting deadlines, they don't react well when they feel slowed down by other team members. In other words, they are generally not good team players. Type B may be slower and take a long time to achieve certain goals, but he can adapt very well with others and tends to improve them by virtue of his patience. Using the person-job fit model, individuals who cannot tolerate failure or people who drag them down can be placed in jobs with less or no human interface. Work-related stress can best be managed by an individual with patience and decorum (p. 471). The stress management framework used by most organizations aims at secondary intervention on the individual and how they react to the situation. Not all stressors or tensions can be eliminated, especially if the nature of the work requires it. Instead, employers redirect efforts to make individual employees strong enough to deal with the situation
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