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Stress as it relates to a jobs design and day to day functions can result from a high effort/low reward environment “as this imbalance violates core expectations about reciprocity and adequate exchange in a crucial area of social life. “ (Siegrist, 1996 p. 2) More simply put, a worker expects to be compensated at a rate equal to their work output, and if not, resentment, bitterness, anger and stress ensue. Along with this factor, the research conducted by Johannes Siegrist, Institute of Medical Sociology, University of Düsseldorf, found that incongruence, the mismatch between a workers’ skill level and his work, which comes in two different types: the experience of an incongruence (“misfit”) between a person’s abilities and the demands of his or her job, and the experience of an incongruence between a person’s goals or aspirations and the supplies offered by the work environment (Ibid p. 6). The study of these factors has been somewhat inconclusive since factors about specific work environments play a big role in the amount and effects of stress on heath in regards to these elements, but it can be said that these tend to be two of the main factors leading to work related stress/heath issues.