PSN scales relate to the stress level and pattern of the individual respondent.  The OSP, as an aggregation of individual scores, relates to the stress level and pattern of a group of individuals. Neither PSN nor OSP, however, relate to corporate concerns regarding the effects of stress on cost exposures and performance vulnerabilities. To address these concerns, a number of scales were developed to indicate the effects of stress on corporate cost exposures and performance vulnerabilities. These indicator scales were created via a process known as inverse factor analysis, wherein one generates a construct, picks items from a data set thought to reflect some aspect of that construct, correlates the selected items with the sum of the items for that construct, and includes those items correlating at some arbitrary level with the sum of the collected items (usually .20 or higher).

Indicator scale items were drawn from 1,150 random PSN records in the PSN data base. Indicator scales were developed around the following constructs:

1. Work Related Stress
2. Stress Outside of Work
3. Cost Exposures: a) Health Care; b) Workers' Compensation; c) Short-Term Disability; d) Long-Term Disability
4. Performance Vulnerabilities: a) Organizational Asynchrony; b) Employee Turnover; c) Absenteeism; d) Presenteeism
5. Physical Health: a) Mental Health; b) Burnouts: (i) Life Distractions (ii) Distractions in the Workplace

See a sample Company Stress Report.