Word: karasek
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...same appears to be true of workers. Robert Karasek, an industrial-engineering professor at Columbia University, has found that people who have little control over their jobs, such as cooks, garment stitchers and assembly-line workers, have higher rates of heart disease than people who can dictate the pace and style of their work. Telephone operators, waiters, cashiers and others whose work makes substantial psychological demands but offers little opportunity for independent decision making are the worst off. This combination of high demands and low control, concludes Karasek, appears to raise one's risk of heart disease by "about...
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