Preventing Stress in Organizations
How to Develop Positive Managers
1. Edition April 2011
278 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Work-related stress represents a major challenge for organizations. Yet surprisingly little solid research or guidance is available on developing stress prevention management skills. Preventing Stress in Organizations fills this gap by presenting an accessible, evidence-based approach to preventing and reducing workplace stress. The authors-registered Occupational Psychologists-introduce an innovative program based on their own research, along with relevant theories. This book offers insights and practical skills to maintain and promote the health and well-being of individual workers and organizations alike.
Preventing Stress in Organizations:How to Develop Positive Managersoffers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help managers prevent and reduce workplace stress in their staff.
* Provides information on the critical skills managers must develop in order to prevent stress in their staff, and the key ongoing behaviours that promote a healthy work environment
* Shows practitioners in occupational psychology, HR, Health and Safety and related professions how positive management can be integrated into an organizationâ?(tm)s existing practices and processes
* Serves as an essential guide for managers themselves on how to incorporate proven stress management skills into their everyday interactions with team members
* Balances rigorous research grounding with real-world vignettes, case studies and exercises
1. Introduction (Joanna Yarker)
2. Why Managing Stress is Important: The Business and Legal Reasons (Joanna Yarker)
3. How to Manage Work-Related Stress (Joanna Yarker)
4. Developing a Framework to Promote Positive Manager Behaviour (Joanna Yarker)
Part II
5. Respectful and Responsible: Managing Emotions and Having Integrity (Management Competency 1) (Rachel Lewis)
6. Managing and Communicating Existing and Future Work (Management Competency 2) (Rachel Lewis)
7. Managing the Individual Within the Team (Management Competency 3) (Rachel Lewis)
8. Reasoning/Managing Difficult Situations (Management Competency 4) (Rachel Lewis)
Part III
9. Overcoming Barriers to Positive Manager Behaviour (Emma Donaldson-Fielder)
10. Supporting Managers to Change Their Behaviour (Emma Donaldson-Fielder)
11. Is Stress Management Just Good Management? (Emma Donaldson-Fielder)
12. The Way Forward (Emma Donaldson-Fielder)
Index
"The three authors - all chartered occupational psychologists - have used their real-life experience and coupled it with a good understanding of research and theory to create an excellent "How to" book for line managers. I would go so far as to say this is almost an essential read for anybody with line-management responsibility and it also has an important educative role for strategic managers who need to understand exactly the psychological culture that will protect and support their organisation." People Management (July 2011)
Rachel Lewis is a Director of Affinity Health at Work, a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and a lecturer in Occupational Psychology at Kingston Business School. She combines her academic career with regular conference speaking, consultancy and training, focusing on the links between leadership, management and employee well-being.
Joanna Yarker is a Director of Affinity Health at Work and a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. She has previously held posts at Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Nottingham. She writes regularly for academic and trade journals, and offers guidance and training to public and private sector organizations focused on improving workplace health.