Download or read book Job Demands and Worker Health written by Robert D. Caplan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupational health report on physiologycal and psychological aspects of mental stress in 23 different occupations in the USA - examines factors such as job satisfaction, boredom, behavioural characteristics and correlations with different types of illness such as cardiovascular disease, gastro-intestinal problems, ulcer and respiratory infections. Bibliography pp. 332 to 342, diagrams, questionnaires and statistical tables.
Download or read book Job Demands and Worker Health written by Robert D. Caplan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Job Demands and Worker Health written by Robert D. Caplan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Job Demands and Worker Health written by Richard Van Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Job Demands and Worker Health written by Jeffrey R. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychosocial Safety Climate written by Maureen F. Dollard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a valuable, comprehensive and unique reference text on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), a new work stress theory. It proposes a new PSC theory concerning the corporate climate for workers’ psychological health, its origins and implications for work stress, and provides a critique of current research and theories. It provides a comprehensive review of all PSC studies to date. The chapters discuss state-of-the-art empirical evidence testing PSC theory in relation to management roles, organisational resilience, corruption, organisational status, cultural perspectives, illegitimate tasks, high PSC work groups, PSC variability in work groups, etc. They investigate outcomes such as psychological distress, emotional exhaustion, depression, worry, engagement, health, cognitive decline, personal initiative, boredom, cynicism, sickness absence, and productivity loss, in various workplace settings across many countries. This unique book allows practitioners to rapidly update practical measures, benchmarks and processes, and provides students and trainees with an introduction to PSC and important concepts and methods, quantitative and qualitative, in occupational health with leads to further sources. Students as well as experts on occupational health and safety, human resource management, occupational health psychology, organisational psychology and practitioners, unions and policy makers will find this book highly informative. It covers relevant materials for undergraduate and postgraduate education, drawing upon the concepts, topics and methods (diary, multilevel, longitudinal, qualitative, data linkage) within the multidisciplinary occupational health area.
Download or read book Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly. It is important to take a systemic approach to address burnout that focuses on the structure, organization, and culture of health care. Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being builds upon two groundbreaking reports from the past twenty years, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, which both called attention to the issues around patient safety and quality of care. This report explores the extent, consequences, and contributing factors of clinician burnout and provides a framework for a systems approach to clinician burnout and professional well-being, a research agenda to advance clinician well-being, and recommendations for the field.
Download or read book The Mechanisms of Job Stress and Strain written by John R. P. French and published by Chichester [Sussex] ; New York : J. Wiley. This book was released on 1982 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good,No Highlights,No Markup,all pages are intact, Slight Shelfwear,may have the corners slightly dented, may have slight color changes/slightly damaged spine.
Download or read book Safe Work in the 21st Century written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite many advances, 20 American workers die each day as a result of occupational injuries. And occupational safety and health (OSH) is becoming even more complex as workers move away from the long-term, fixed-site, employer relationship. This book looks at worker safety in the changing workplace and the challenge of ensuring a supply of top-notch OSH professionals. Recommendations are addressed to federal and state agencies, OSH organizations, educational institutions, employers, unions, and other stakeholders. The committee reviews trends in workforce demographics, the nature of work in the information age, globalization of work, and the revolution in health care deliveryâ€"exploring the implications for OSH education and training in the decade ahead. The core professions of OSH (occupational safety, industrial hygiene, and occupational medicine and nursing) and key related roles (employee assistance professional, ergonomist, and occupational health psychologist) are profiled-how many people are in the field, where they work, and what they do. The book reviews in detail the education, training, and education grants available to OSH professionals from public and private sources.
Download or read book Job Demands and Worker Health in Machine paced Poultry Inspection written by Barbara Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bridging Occupational Organizational and Public Health written by Georg F. Bauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our complex, fast changing society, health is strongly influenced by the continuously changing interactions between organisations and their employees. Three major fields contribute to health-oriented improvements of these interactions: occupational health, organizational health and public health. As currently only partial links exist amongst these fields, the book aims to explore potential synergies more systematically. Considering the high mental and social demands in a service and knowledge sector economy, the first part of the book focuses on work-related psychosocial factors. As a large proportion of inequalities in health in developed countries can be explained by inequalities in working conditions, those psychosocial factors with a particularly high public health impact are highlighted. As addressing these psychosocial factors requires to involve the organization as the key change agent, the second part covers approaches to improve public health through organizational level health interventions. The last section takes a look into the future of occupational, organizational and public health: what are the future challenges regarding occupational health and how can they be tackled within and beyond the organizational level. Overall, this integrating book will help to broaden the evidence-base, legitimacy and efficacy of occupational- and organizational-level health interventions and thus increase their public health impact.
Download or read book Human Relations in the Restaurant Industry written by William Foote Whyte and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Job Complexity Worker Control and Health written by Rena Joy Pasick and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Predictors of Stress in American Workers written by Lisa Rusch and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic work stress is a common problem in the United States, contributing to a myriad of negative health outcomes including poor sleep and burnout in workers. Furthermore, workers with chronic health conditions may be at increased risk to the hazards of work stress. Although several psychological theories exist which provide context for work stress, the Job Demands-Resources Model suggests that work stress arises when job demands exceed available resources which can help alleviate the strain. Demands require ongoing efforts that pull from resources which reduce demands and their associated psychological or physiological costs. In line with the Total Worker Health® concept of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, demands and resources can arise from both the work and personal realms and provide potential avenues for interventions. Although a multitude of demands and resources exist, many of which have been examined in the literature, leisure time physical activity (LTPA) is a personal resource recommended by the CDC to support well-being, in part by promoting healthy sleep and reducing work-related burnout. Little is known about the ability of LTPA to mitigate the effects of job demands on workers, nor its effectiveness in altering worker well-being compared to other resources and demands. The purpose of this thesis was to identify the job and personal demands and resources that influence worker sleep and burnout in a national group of workers as well as in workers with a a chronic health condition, breast cancer survivors, with special attention given to LTPA. These cross-sectional studies applied multivariate logistic regression analysis to calculate adjusted odds ratios for nonrestorative sleep (NRS), poor quality sleep, and the components of burnout: exhaustion and disengagement. Primary predictors were job demands (physical and psychological) and resources (coworker support, supervisor support, and decision latitude) and personal demands (family-to-work conflict, commute time, and health-to-work conflict) and resources (good health and LTPA). We found, in our national sample, that only the sleep of workers in the most and least physically demanding jobs benefited from participation in LTPA, with those workers most active at work requiring less LTPA to benefit restorative sleep. Also, high psychological demands and low supervisor and coworker support were associated with high exhaustion and disengagement and low decision latitude with high disengagement only. Surprisingly, good and fair health (compared to excellent health) and no LTPA (compared to meeting recommendations) were associated with reduced odds of high exhaustion. In a sample of breast cancer survivors, only energy-related health-to-work conflict was associated with increased odds of poor quality sleep. In conclusion, job and personal demands and resources affect sleep and burnout in American workers, but not always as expected and differently in workers with a chronic condition.
Download or read book Unhealthy Work written by Peter Schnall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more costly side. Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual counts of injuries that we think of as 'occupational health'. The ways in which work is organized - its pace and intensity, degree of control over the work process, sense of justice, and employment security, among other things - can be as toxic to the health of workers as the chemicals in the air. These work characteristics can be detrimental not only to mental well-being but to physical health. Scientists refer to these features of work as 'hazards' of the 'psychosocial' work environment. One key pathway from the work environment to illness is through the mechanism of stress; thus we speak of 'stressors' in the work environment, or 'work stress'. This is in contrast to the popular psychological understandings of 'stress', which locate many of the problems with the individual rather than the environment. In this book we advance a social environmental understanding of the workplace and health. The book addresses this topic in three parts: the important changes taking place in the world of work in the context of the global economy (Part I); scientific findings on the effects of particular forms of work organization and work stressors on employees' health, 'unhealthy work' as a major public health problem, and estimates of costs to employers and society (Part II); and, case studies and various approaches to improve working conditions, prevent disease, and improve health (Part III).
Download or read book Job Control and Worker Health written by Steven L. Sauter and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1989-11-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles by leading international psychologists and occupational health researchers discusses the effect of job control on worker health. Presents the theory of job control, considers its importance, and reviews recent research findings concerning the effects of job control (or lack of thereof) on worker health.
Download or read book Stress and Quality of Working Life written by Ana Maria Rossi and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an unfortunate reality that many employees experience elevated levels of stress at work. Feeling stressed has impacts beyond mere emotions. For example, a survey of European Union member states found that 28% of employees reported stress?related illness or health issues, and studies in the USA have found that over 25% of employees reported that they are often or very often burned out by their work. Also, not all stress should be or can be eliminated, as many industries and jobs are highly demanding in their nature. Therefore, it is important that employees, employers, clinicians, and researchers endeavor to develop a better understanding of workplace stressors and how employee health and well?being can be improved. This book can help individuals and organizations better appreciate stressors faced by employees. It showcases research by over two dozen authors in twelve chapters, focusing on the interpersonal and occupation?based sources of workplace stress, as well as how to alleviate work stress. Coworkers, supervisors, and others with whom a person works can have a dramatic influence on the degree of stress a worker experiences, and it is often the interpersonal conflict that is unrelated to one’s job that is the most difficult to manage. In addition, the context of a person’s work also influences the degree and type of stressors they encounter at work, and this book examines several occupations and their associated stress. We hope that these findings provide ways for individuals and organizations to enhance the well?being of employees.
