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Coping with change
Performance
or self-esteem
Stress
Figure 13.3 Self-esteem, performance and stress
One simple and helpful idea for managers dealing with change involves look-
ing at the relationship between self-esteem, performance and stress. This is
shown in Figure 13.3. The relationship turns out to apply to both performance
and self-esteem. The problem is that people are different.
We do not all fit neatly onto the one curve. However, the general nature of the
relationship seems to hold. In any event, if change causes stress we cannot be at
the left-hand end of the diagram. We must be moving in the direction shown in
Figure 13.4 and therefore down the curve. Is there a threshold beyond which
Threshold
Self-esteem or
performance
Change
Stress
Figure 13.4 Self-esteem, performance, stress and change
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