“…This stress seems more intense nowadays due to the changes in the workplaces that have greatly affected their work activities (e.g. organizational restructuring, increase in the number of employees to supervise, diversified and complex tasks, limited resources) (St-Hilaire and Gilbert, 2018;Petru and Jarosova, 2019;Worrall et al, 2016;Blom et al, 2016;Debus et al, 2019) and the adoption of high-performance management practices (HPMPs), which empower employees and make the boundaries between managers and non-managers fuzzy. According to some authors, these changes have fainted managers' identity (Monneuse, 2014;St-Onge and Provost, 2014;Mccormack et al, 2017;Sveningsson and Alvesson, 2016), which might exhaust them emotionally, especially that identity represents according to some authors, the core, or even the frame of the individual's mental health (Dejours, 2008).…”