Organizational Stress Management: A Strategic Approach

✍ Scribed by Ashley Weinberg, Valerie J. Sutherland, Cary Cooper (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Including practical advice on how to conduct a stress audit and how to target stress 'hot spots' within an organization, Organizational Stress Management provides a fresh strategic model for the manager concerned with the negative effects stress can have both on company performance and the quality of life of individuals at work.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Change And The Need For Change....Pages 1-36
Stress And The Law....Pages 37-52
What Is Stress?....Pages 53-75
Understanding The Nature Of Stress: Organizational Hot Spots....Pages 76-111
Stress, New Technology And The Physical Environment....Pages 112-131
Conducting A Stress Audit....Pages 132-152
Options For The Management Of Stress In The Workplace: An Organizational Approach....Pages 153-243
Back Matter....Pages 244-296

✦ Subjects

Management; Organization; Human Resource Management; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine; Behavioral/Experimental Economics