Preventing Stress, Improving Productivity : European Case-Studies in the Workplace

ISBN-13: 9780415165570 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 368 str.

Cary L. Cooper; Michiel Kompier

Opis

Changing the workplace to help prevent stress is much more cost effective in the long term than treating employees for the effects of stress. But to date, there has been little guidance for employers who wish to implement such programmes. This text has gathered together examples of best practice in the workplace across a range of EU countries and organizations. It explores the costs and benefits of stress prevention for workers and organizations and includes case studies, evaluations and reviews. It should be of value to occupational psychologists, consultants and managers across a wide range of work settings.

Spis treści

1: Introduction: Improving work, health and productivity through stress prevention; 2: Workplace stress and stress prevention in Europe; 3: Costs and benefits of stress prevention in organisations; 4: Finland: Organisational well-being; 5: The Netherlands: A hospital, ‘Healthy Working for Health'; 6: Belgium: A pharmaceutical company; 7: United Kingdom: Evaluation of a stress management programme in the public sector; 8: Denmark: Self-rule on route 166; 9: Sweden: Mail processing; 10: Germany: Reduction of stress by health circles; 11: Ireland: Stress prevention in an airport management company; 12: Portugal: Preventing occupational stress in a bank organisation; 13: Greece: Stress management in the health care sector; 14: Italy: A school of nursing; 15: Stress prevention: European countries and European cases compared

O autorze

Michael Kompier is Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Cary Cooper is BUPA Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).