Stress in the Workplace: Past, Present and Future

ISBN-13: 9781861561817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 212 str.

Jack Dunham

Opis

This volume consists of nine chapters written by internationally known research workers. It begins with a psychosocial framework for understanding sickness and health in the workplace, then gives an account of research with executives in industry and the US Air Force. Tores Theorell focuses his research on the increasing demands on workers and the diminishing control they have over their working lives. Johannes Siegrist is concerned with imbalance - in this case between effort and reward at work. Then there is a report on the effects of the increase of mergers and acquisitions in the 1990s, and an examination of the stress of working for clearing banks, merchant banks and foreign-owned banks in London and New York. The next chapter presents evidence of the sources of stress for women in managerial positions. Cheryl Travers analyzes the rising costs of teacher stress and then Michiel Kompier and Tage Kristensen make recommendations for planning and implementation stress management strategies in the workplace.

Spis treści

Cary Cooper: Am Appreciation, Jack Dunham.

Contributors.

Preface.

Stress in The Global Environment, Lennart Levi.

Occupational Stress and Self–reliance – Developmental Research Issues, James Campbell Quick, Debra L. Nelson and Jonathan D. Quick.

Stress and Health – From a Work Perspective, tores Theorell, a Theory of Occupational Stress, Johannes Siegrist.

The stressful Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions, Susan Cartwright and Sheila Panchal.

Stress in The Financial Sector, Howard Kahn.

Stress and The Woman manager, Sandra L. Fielden and Marilyn J. Davidson.

Stress in Teaching, Cheryl Travers.

Organizational Work Stress Interventions in a Theoretical, methodological and Practical Context, Michiel A.J. Kompier and Tage S. Kristensen.

Index.

Blurb

This book consists of nine chapters written by internationally known and respected research workers.  Lennart Levi presents a psychosocial framework for understanding sickness and health in the workplace. James Campbell Quick, Debra Nelson and Jonathan Quick give an account of their research with executives in industry and the US Air Force. Tores Theorell focusses his research on the increasing demands on workers and the reducing control they have over their working lives. Johannes Siegrist is also concerned with imbalance in this case between effort and reward at work. Susan Cartwright and Sheila Penchal report on the effects of the increase of mergers and acquisitions in the 1990 s. Howard Khan s focus is the stress of working for clearing banks, merchant banks and foreign owned banks in London and New York. Sandra Fielden and Lyn Davidson present evidence of the sources of stress of women in managerial positions. Cheryl Traver s analysis of the rising costs of teacher stress is very relevant for policy makers and mangers. Michiel Kompier and Tage Kristensen make recommendations for planning and implementing stress management strategies in the workplace.