Organizational Stress: A Two-Edged Sword

Stephen R. Balzac ()

Chapter Chapter 11 in Organizational Psychology for Managers, 2014, pp 213-233 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There is an old and hoary claim that if you put a frog in boiling water, it will immediately jump out, but if you put it in cold water and slowly increase the temperature, the frog will sit there until it cooks. In fact, this happens only if the frog is equipped with little frog cement galoshes rendering it unable to jump: frogs are too smart to be boiled alive. They leave long before the water gets hot enough to cook them. Why, then, does this story have such longevity?

Keywords: Role Ambiguity; Marathon Runner; Star Trek; Healthy Snack; Error Catastrophe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8505-6_11

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