CASE INCIDENT 2: Sleeping on the job

Sleep Deprivation;
• High level backpain
• Depression
• Job dissatisfaction
• Low level performance
• High level cyberloafing
Center for Disease Control
• $411 billion per year, with 1.2 million working days lost in the U.S.
A study on 600 companies shows that
• %6 of companies dedicated a room for nap
• %34 of workers were allowed to nap
7-18: Should organizations be concerned about employees being sleep deprived? What factors
influencing sleep might be more or less under the control of an organization?
• Yes, affect workers’ performance and entire organization’s performance
• Factors
• Reducing long working hours
• Location and travel time
• Pressurizing the employees to meet target (stress can cause sleep deprivation)
7-19: How might reinforcement theory play a role in the extent to which employees are sleep-
deprived?
• Focuses on the behavior of the employees within an organization.
• Identifies the factors influencing a particular behavior of the employee.
• The sleep deprivation of the employees can be identified.
7-20: How might sleep deprivation influence aspects expectancy theory? How might the
incorporation of nap rooms for sleep-deprived employees influence aspects of equity theory?
• The efficiency of an employee mainly depends on his expectations about the outcome.
The less sleep, the less expectation and finally the less performance
• Nap rooms let workers get refreshing,
• The employees will expect this in all organizations and will prefer to have such benefits
while working with an organization
7-21: If you were a manager who noticed your employees were sleep-deprived, what steps
might you take to help them? What theories of motivation could you use to help them?
• Nap rooms
• Adjusting their schedules to allow more sleep hours
• Reducing long working hours
• Maslows theory of needs
• Help achieve motivation in relation to the two factor theory to reach job satisfaction
• The goal setting theory (Edwin Locke) for achieve motivation and making sleep as a goal
for my employees and encourage them to engage with their responsibilities.