Хронический стресс и временная саморегуляция у менеджеров по продажам

Abstract

Background. Time factor plays a signiacant role in creating unfavorable conditions for work activity. Temporal characteristics of labor oben become one of the main factors in the emergence of organizational stress (Vodopyanova, 2009; Artamonova, Leonova, 2009). ce activities of sales managers considered in the work are characterized by a signiacant severity of stress tension with time and deadline pressure leading among the numerous stressors in this professional activity. ce problem of lack of time for personal life and the lack of balance between work and life stem from temporary tension. Temporal aspects of work, being aware of them, subjective assessment and time management require separate consideration from the perspective of professional development and overcoming stress for sales managers. Objective. ce study focuses on the multi-level indicators of temporal self-regulation in chronic stress in the hard work of representatives of managerial professions. To achieve the goal, the task of conducting an empirical study aimed at identifying the features of self-organization, self-management and experiencing time at work, as well as anding the place and role of time aspects in the chronic stress development among sales managers was set. Sample. ce sample is represented by 154 sales managers (mean age 34 years, 56 men, 95 women) working in large wholesale and several small wholesale trade and industrial organizations in diderent cities of Russia. Methods. Data collection was carried out electronically using Google forms questionnaires. ce study was conducted in 2019–2020. To study the level of occupational stress, the methodology “Questionnaire for assessing the level of experiences of acute and chronic stress” was used (Leonova, Kachina, 2007). In order to study the assessment of working time and its experience, the “Time Perspective Questionnaire” (Zimbardo, Sword, Sword, 2017), “Manager’s Time Syndrome” (Vodopyanova, 2018), “Questionnaire for Self-Organization of Activities” (Mandrikova, 2010) and the questionnaire “Overall indicator of the edectiveness of the system of self-management of working time”, specially developed by our group, were used. Results. We have obtained numerous interrelations between indicators of chronic stress and temporal self-regulation. Such predictors of chronic stress as temporal orientation to the negative past, lack of expressiveness of aspirations to the future and hedonistic present were identiaed. ce presence of chronic stress and the experience of lack of time were predictors for a decrease in the edectiveness of self-management of working time (time management) among sales managers. Conclusion. ce multi-level indicators of temporal self-regulation considered, including temporal orientations, experience of lack of time, self-organization of activities and time management, can on the one hand, be predictors of chronic stress, while on the other hand, act as a resource for overcoming it in the activities of sales managers.