Estresse ocupacional em uma startup de educação cearense: um breve estudo adaptado de lipp

Abstract

The way of working in startups tends to focus on differentiation from the traditional market, attracting young people with innovative ideas, promoting combinations of talents with knowledge and more interactions in groups. However, organizational changes are happening at a much faster pace, with new pressures, intensified and constant tensions in the work environment, which may be enough to generate occupational stress. Given this context, the following research question emerges: what is the stress level of professionals in an educational startup? The present work verified the occupational stress of the professionals of an education startup from Ceará, trying to understand the level of stress of the employees, based on the Lipp Stress Symptoms Inventory (ISSL). A survey-style quantitative survey was carried out using an online questionnaire adapted based on the ISSL, consisting of questions that correlated symptoms with daily activities and work as a whole. The list of symptoms had five points related to the frequency that the individual perceives these signs, having been applied to the employees of the startup under study. The execution of the ISSL within the educational startup showed that 33.3% of the employees were within one of the phases of the inventory, including individuals who simultaneously fit into two phases of the ISSL. It is important to highlight the main symptoms presented by employees, such as “muscle tension including pain in the back, neck and shoulders” present in 66.6% of respondents, followed by the feeling of constant physical exhaustion” and “excessive fatigue” recorded by approximately 62% of employees. In summary, the practical applicability of the ISSL is highlighted in the sample of twenty-one employees appointed for the study, it was possible to identify the stress levels of these professionals following the Lipp Stress Symptom Inventory.