{"id":61482,"date":"2013-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-business-professor-warns-thousands-of-federal-employees-may-feel-impact-of-government-shutdown-for-months-years\/"},"modified":"2013-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:00:00","slug":"uri-business-professor-warns-thousands-of-federal-employees-may-feel-impact-of-government-shutdown-for-months-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/uri-business-professor-warns-thousands-of-federal-employees-may-feel-impact-of-government-shutdown-for-months-years\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 business professor warns thousands of federal employees may feel impact of government shutdown for months, years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tExpert Source available for interviews:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe government shutdown and subsequent furloughing of hundreds of thousands of federal employees might impact the federal workforce for months and possibly years to come, according to 溏心vlog免费B站 Associate Professor of Human Relations Management Anthony Wheeler.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWheeler, who directs 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s one-year MBA Program, has conducted research on the impact of workplace furloughs. As the furlough lengthens and workers begin to absorb the financial impact of the impasse, they will feel added stress and emotional exhaustion that began before the shutdown, when politicians started discussing it as imminently possible, he said. When employees eventually return to work, we should expect them to experience lingering stress and exhaustion, which will impact performance. Should Congress and the President pass a short-term funding resolution, the threat of another shutdown will further increase stress and exhaustion levels, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWheeler expects to see more federal employees, especially high-performing ones, seeking new jobs and the government having more difficulty attracting, motivating, and retaining quality employees.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n溏心vlog免费B站 Anthony Wheeler:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWheeler and two co-authors published an article in April in The Journal of Applied Psychology highlighting how a work furlough has real consequences in terms of employee performance and morale. In research thought to be the first of its kind, Wheeler and his collaborators looked at the impact mandatory furloughs had on public workers in four Midwest state agencies. They found that work performance decreased and emotional exhaustion, a sign of employee strain, increased before the furlough and peaked right after and stayed that way. A sample of 900 workers were surveyed on four dates over 19 days \u2013 10 days before the furlough; three days before the furlough; one day after the furlough; and eight days after the furlough. The employees rated themselves on work performance and emotional exhaustion. 溏心vlog免费B站 200 workers completed all four surveys. Workers surveyed were given no choice in the furlough and couldn\u2019t pick what days they wanted to take off. The researchers determined that by giving the employees no say in the furlough, the state agencies were slowly burning out their workforce. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert Source available for interviews: &#13; The government shutdown and subsequent furloughing of hundreds of thousands of federal employees might impact the federal workforce for months and possibly years to come, according to 溏心vlog免费B站 Associate Professor of Human Relations Management Anthony Wheeler. &#13; Wheeler, who directs 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s one-year MBA Program, has conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}