Occupational Health Psychology
The Challenge of Workplace Stress
1. Auflage Februar 2002
180 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-85433-327-8
John Wiley & Sons
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This book contains an overview of research into stress in the workplace and also provides a practical framework for which both students and managers can develop their skills and knowledge to implement effective intervention strategies in organisations.
1. Introduction.
2. What is stress?.
3. Stress reactions and sources of stress.
4. The approach.
5.Addendum: Interventions.
2. What is stress?.
3. Stress reactions and sources of stress.
4. The approach.
5.Addendum: Interventions.
"This book is good in every way. It addresses its subject fairly and squarely in a literary style that neither overwhelms nor patronises. It offers a balance of pragmatic application and robust theory. It is well 'signposted' for easy access." Julie Hyde, Professional Manager, November 2001.
Marc J. Schabracq teaches courses on work and health
psychology at the University of Amsterdam and is a consultant in
human aspects of production and change to both profit and
non-profit organisations. He is well known as an author of 17
scholarly books and over 100 articles as well as media appearances
and a novelist. Together with Cary Cooper and Jacques Winnubst, he
is also editor on the internationally known Handbook of Work and
Health Psychology, published by John Wiley.
Cary C. Cooper is Professor of Organisational Psychology
and Health at the Manchester School of Management, UMIST. He has
authored over 80 books and 300 scholarly articles on different
aspects of occupational health in general and stress in particular,
and is a frequent contributor to the media. He is founding editor
of the Journal of Organisational Behaviour, co-editor of
Stress Medicine and the International Journal of
Management Review. He is a Fellow of the BPS, the Royal Society
of Arts, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of
Health. Currently, Professor Cooper is President of the British
Academy of Management, a Companion of the Institute of Management
and a Fellow of the American Academy of Management.
Cheryl Travers teaches in the Business School,
Loughborough University, where she has held several post the most
recent being Director of Doctoral Training. Her research interests
and publication are various: occupational stress, management of
change, women in management, and the impact of personality type on
adaptation to work. She acts as a Consultant in most areas of
management development, in particular, stress management and the
management of change, to clients in both the public and the private
sectors. She is co-author with Cary Cooper, of Teachers Under
Pressure: Stress in the Teaching Profession, published by
Routledge.
David J. van Maanen is a psychologist and business
administration consultant on the implementation of change in both
profit and non-profit organisations. His work includes coaching
managers and teams in goal-setting and realising change. He also
teaches the subject of organisational health to post-graduates in
the Netherlands.
psychology at the University of Amsterdam and is a consultant in
human aspects of production and change to both profit and
non-profit organisations. He is well known as an author of 17
scholarly books and over 100 articles as well as media appearances
and a novelist. Together with Cary Cooper and Jacques Winnubst, he
is also editor on the internationally known Handbook of Work and
Health Psychology, published by John Wiley.
Cary C. Cooper is Professor of Organisational Psychology
and Health at the Manchester School of Management, UMIST. He has
authored over 80 books and 300 scholarly articles on different
aspects of occupational health in general and stress in particular,
and is a frequent contributor to the media. He is founding editor
of the Journal of Organisational Behaviour, co-editor of
Stress Medicine and the International Journal of
Management Review. He is a Fellow of the BPS, the Royal Society
of Arts, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of
Health. Currently, Professor Cooper is President of the British
Academy of Management, a Companion of the Institute of Management
and a Fellow of the American Academy of Management.
Cheryl Travers teaches in the Business School,
Loughborough University, where she has held several post the most
recent being Director of Doctoral Training. Her research interests
and publication are various: occupational stress, management of
change, women in management, and the impact of personality type on
adaptation to work. She acts as a Consultant in most areas of
management development, in particular, stress management and the
management of change, to clients in both the public and the private
sectors. She is co-author with Cary Cooper, of Teachers Under
Pressure: Stress in the Teaching Profession, published by
Routledge.
David J. van Maanen is a psychologist and business
administration consultant on the implementation of change in both
profit and non-profit organisations. His work includes coaching
managers and teams in goal-setting and realising change. He also
teaches the subject of organisational health to post-graduates in
the Netherlands.