Strengths

2025-10-07 10:00:09 UTC

Somewhat accounts for more complex interactions of the actual work an employee is handed and its effect on the employee’s well-being.

Looks at combinations of interactions between control and job demand and examined how they could influence an employee’s stress levels.

Weaknesses

2025-10-07 10:04:14 UTC

Does not account for external environmental factors at work including:

Management styles that could lead to stress; over-demanding, micro-managing, etc.
- Lack of growth opportunities
Workplace harassment or bullying
Physical environment of the workplace; perhaps a polluted or noisy environment (due to high traffic road, etc.) or lack of green spaces. Also in life’s offices or work place that “feel like a prison cell”.
- Unergonomic equipment leading to physical harm, that could result in stress.

The interactions are not as straight forward as they may seem in the diagrams.

Humans are complex beings and organisations are complex structures. The model can be criticised for being “too brief”.