Stress, Wellness, and Performance Optimization

ISBN-13: 9781774914069 / Twarda / 2024 / 264 str.

Opis

Offers insight and strategies to support individuals and organizations for effective performance. Discusses constraints that negate effective job performance, well-being interventions, role of family and spirituality, new technology, work-life balance and satisfaction, burnout, etc. Also provides examples that combine theory and practice.

Spis treści

1. Organizational Constraints as a Source of Work Stress: A Multifaceted Perspective 2. Managing Wellbeing at Work: Multi-Level Interventions to Promote Productive and Healthy Workplaces 3. Alleviating Stress Among Indian Higher Education Faculty: Moderating Effect of Support for Online Teaching 4. Meaning-Making and Mental Health in Leadership and Organization through Family and Spiritual Resilience 5. A Framework for Managing Employee Wellness with Wearables, Big Data, and Analytics 6. Illegitimate Absence of Tasks: A New Concept of Offense to the Self 7. Mental Health, the Pandemic, and a New Path Forward for Employee Wellbeing and Organizational Success 8. Work-Life Balance and Life Satisfaction among Indian Employees in the Retail and Information Technology Sectors 9. Understanding Concept of Health and Wellbeing: Baiga‘s Way of Life 10. Perceived Organizational Justice, Generational Cohort, Burnout, and Self-Efficacy among Indian Employees

O autorze

Nilesh Thakre, PhD, is a Professor and Head of the Psychology Department at SNDT Women’s University (SNDTWU), Mumbai, India, as well as an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist. He worked as a member of the Management Council and a Senator at SNDTWU. He has 22 years of work experience in the area of corporate, academics, research and consultancy. He was a member of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)– WRC. He is working as a Board of Studies member at various universities. He has also worked in the research department of the Government of India and for NGOs. He has authored books, book chapters, and articles and has edited a book on management and psychology. Dr. Thakre worked on research projects and serves as an external examiner at several universities in India. He has delivered invited lectures at many national and international conferences. Dr. Thakre’s credentials include a PhD (I/O Psy), UGC-NET, MA (I/O. Psy.), MA (Clin. Psy.), Master of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, Diploma in Training & Development (Dip TD) from ISTD, Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology, and Certificate in People Analytics and Evidence-Based Management Professional from the Mannheim Business School, Germany.

B. Udaya Kumar Reddy, PhD, worked as Professor at the Dr. MCR HRD Institute, Govt. of A.P., Hyderabad, India. He also worked as a Stress Management Consultant (Hon.), Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit, CARE Hospital & MediCiti Hospital, Hyderabad, India. Dr. Reddy is the founder of the International Stress Management Association (ISMA), India. He worked extensively in organizational stress audits, interventions, and stress management policy in the workplace. He has given keynote addresses and presented several papers at national and international conferences in the areas of stress and positive psychology in India and abroad. Dr. Reddy has master’s degrees in philosophy, psychology, and management; his PhD is in the area of stress management. Dr. Reddy has two decades of postdoctoral experience in the areas of stress training, research, consultancy, and counselling and is presently strengthening the Stress Management Lab Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, India, in the capacity of Director (Training & Consultancy).