Tolley's Managing Stress in the Workplace

ISBN-13: 9780754512691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 448 str.

Carole Spiers

Opis

With one in five workers (approximately 5 million) reported as having felt under extreme pressure at work, stress is overtaking the common cold as the biggest cause of absence from work. The CBI has put the total cost of mental health and stress problems to employers at u5 billion. The Institute of Management has estimated that 270,000 people take time off very day due to work related stress. This is a cost to the UK economy of u7 billion p.a. in terms of sick pay, lost production, NHS costs, etc. The HSC is planning a programme of work to tackle occupational stress through a range of actions, including the development of standards of good management practice. They concluded that work related stress is a serious problem, it is a health and safety issue, and it can be tackled in part through health and safety legislation. The cost to business of stress related absenteeism and under-performance is known to be huge, and should in itself justify intervention, but if that is not enough, then the cost of losing a stress related claim can run into six figures and attract unwelcome publicity."

Recenzje

"Well written and easy to read, the book is logical and competent. It should find a place on the corporate bookshelves."
- HEALTH AND SAFEETY AT WORK (July 2004)

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.Foreword.Preface.About the Author.The Nature of Stress.Current Legislation and the Employer.The Health and Safety Framework.Identifying Current Workplace Stressors.The Effects of Stress on an Organisation.Bullying at Work.The Effects of Stress on the Individual.Trauma and Coping with the Aftermath of a Critical Incident.Stress and Health.Developing and Maintaining a Healthy Organisation.Personal Stress Management Strategies.The Future of Stress.Bibliography.Table of Cases.Table of Statutes.Table of Statutory Instruments.Index.

O autorze

Carole Spiers