Organizational Role as a Risk Factor in Coronary Disease.

This article reviews recent publications in the medical journals which suggest that organizational roles, particularly overloading roles, are a significant risk factor in the etiology of coronary disease. It also resents data from a laboratory experiment directed toward this problem. It is concluded, both from the literature review and from the laboratory experiment, that overloading roles can exert a marked deleterious effect upon the health of overloaded individuals. In addition, it is suggested that organizational roles, whether overloading or not, exert their most harmful effect upon those organizational members who experience the lowest job satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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