From a medical perspective it is important to begin discussions about flexibility at work with individual physiological mechanisms underlying reaction patterns. A recent development in physiology is the formulation of “chaos theory” (Cotton, 1991; Goldberger, 1991), which can be regarded as the biological basis of flexible coping. It is, accordingly, of fundamental importance to the analysis of flexibility at work in relation to employee health. It postulates that the reactions in the healthy organism are Read the rest of this entry »