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Book The Role of Leadership in Occupational Stress

Download or read book The Role of Leadership in Occupational Stress written by William A. Gentry and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 14 examines critical topics at the intersection of leadership, stress, and well being including: leaders’ networks, personality and development, workaholism, followership, the role of leaders in helping promote employees’ mental well being and taking a holistic view of a leader’s life at and away from work.

Book Leadership and Employee Perceived Stress

Download or read book Leadership and Employee Perceived Stress written by Sultan Sadik and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated factors that influence the relationship between leadership styles (transformational and laissez-faire) and employee perceived stress during COVID-19 (N = 145). Using the Conservation of resources theory, I identified and tested two factors that may moderate the effects of leadership styles on employee perceived stress: financial threat and co-worker support. Co-worker support was found to moderate the relationship between transformational leadership and employee perceived stress. Financial threat was found to moderate the relationship between laissez-faire leadership and employee perceived stress. These findings contribute to the literature on leadership and employee stress and suggest that co-worker support and financial threat could moderate the positive or negative outcomes related to leadership styles.

Book Strategic Stress Management

Download or read book Strategic Stress Management written by V. Sutherland and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress has recently overtaken the common cold as the most common cause of sick leave in many European countries and is a major cause of concern for companies worldwide. Why then do most of the 'Coping with Stress' texts to be found in bookshops consider this a problem only to be tackled by the Individual ? Strategic Stress Management is different, it shows how companies can boost performance by adopting integrated organizational strategies to identify and reduce stress in their employees. Including practical advice on how to conduct a stress audit and how to target stress 'hot spots' with an organization, Strategic 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. This is the latest book from best-selling stress management author, Cary Cooper, and will be eagerly awaited by HR Directors, Organizational Consultants. Occupational Psychologists, Managing Directors and all managers who wish to work with healthy, stable and productive staff.

Book Power  Politics  and Political Skill in Job Stress

Download or read book Power Politics and Political Skill in Job Stress written by Christopher C. Rosen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the connections between social influence processes, broadly defined (e.g., power, politics, political skill and influence), and employee stress, health, and well-being.

Book Leading to Occupational Health and Safety

Download or read book Leading to Occupational Health and Safety written by E. Kevin Kelloway and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading to Occupational Health and Safety brings together prominent researchers to explore the pervasive roles that leaders play in determining the health, safety and mental well-being of employees in organizations. The first text to directly link organizational leadership behaviours with health and safety outcomes, covering theory, research and evidence-based best practice Argues that a leader’s impact can be far more far-reaching than is commonly realized, and examines the effects of leadership on safety, physical wellness and wellbeing, and psychological wellbeing Explores the theoretical underpinnings of effective leadership styles and behaviors, and advances both research and practice in order to encourage better leadership and healthier, safer organizations Features contributions from internationally known and respected researchers including Sharon Clarke, Kara Arnold, Fred Luthans, Ståle Einarsen, Julian Barling, and Emma Donaldson-Feilder

Book Developing Leadership and Employee Health Through the Arts

Download or read book Developing Leadership and Employee Health Through the Arts written by Julia Romanowska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the problems that a “laissez faire” attitude from managers can create in the workplace, as well as the ensuing illness such problems may cause among employees. The book offers new ideas for dealing with these problems and proposes the use of cultural experiences as an active component in leadership development programmes for managers. It presents the findings from a randomized trial to show how cultural experiences can be deployed, and what the effect on employees is. The book discusses health-promoting leadership and key components in cultural activities for the benefit of workplaces from several points of view, offering a historical, social, psychological, biological, educational and organizational perspective. Finally, it presents new theories on empathy in managers, and on employee effects of good/bad changes in manager behaviour.

Book Managing Workplace Stress

Download or read book Managing Workplace Stress written by Susan Cartwright and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-12-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book does well in several respects: First, it presents a broad but integrated view of the workplace as a source of stress. Second, it is thorough treatment of the topic of job stress and is well-referenced. Finally, it contains a clear description of the importance of organizational culture/climate as influencing perceived stress, a topic missing in many books. --Lawrence Murphy, Senior Research Psychologist, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Stress in the workplace is on the rise, resulting in higher rates of absenteeism, reduced productivity, and increased health compensation claims. Managing Workplace Stress examines the cause of this increase in work-related stress, with a particular emphasis on stress created by organizational changes including redesigning of jobs, reallocations of roles and responsibilities, and the accompanying job insecurities. It highlights the everyday stressors likely to impact managers and employees, such as working with difficult people and managing increased workloads. This insightful new volume also offers useful and practical strategies for dealing with these situations.

Book Stress and Quality of Working Life

Download or read book Stress and Quality of Working Life written by Ana Maria Rossi and published by IAP. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eighth edition of the Stress and Quality of Working Life book series. The Brazilian section of the International Stress Management Association (ISMA-BR), a not-for-profit organization that studies stress and ways to prevent it, together with two renowned American researchers, has organized the eighth volume of the series Stress and Quality of Working Life: Coping at Work and at Home. The new volume offers some of the latest theories and methods on how to cope with stress and quality of working life issues based on the experience and knowledge of recognized international experts in this field. This book is meant to be a tool to provide information and suggest ways to deal with pressures and demands from the workplace. The contemporary workplace includes a combination of traditional workplace environments, work-from-home arrangements, and hybrid models with some combination of working from a traditional environment and at home. Our authorship team comprises international experts from many disciplines so we can provide insights into contemporary stress and quality of working life issues, as well as how to cope with them at work and at home.

Book Dealing With Stress in a Modern Work Environment

Download or read book Dealing With Stress in a Modern Work Environment written by Julia A. M. Reif and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an evidence-based, comprehensive and vividly illustrated overview of stress and stress management, emphasizing the central role of resources. Scientists and practitioners, students, employees and employers can use this book to bring themselves up to date on the current state of psychological stress research and learn many practical tips and tricks for dealing with stress and resources. Building on proven and contemporary psychological theories of stress and resource research, this book explains how stress emerges, how resources influence the stress process and what individuals and organizations can do to prevent stressors, reduce stress, recover from stress, and cope with the long-term consequences of strain. The book takes up current societal trends such as digitization and automation, and refers to cultural influences and differences. Through numerous case studies, facts and figures, checklists and exercises, the book not only leads the reader on an exciting journey through the scientific background and history of stress research, but also offers numerous opportunities for self-assessment and critical reflection on (one's own) work in organizations.

Book A Research Agenda for Workplace Stress and Wellbeing

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Workplace Stress and Wellbeing written by Kelloway, E. K. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful Research Agenda considers the current state of research into workplace stress and wellbeing and maps an innovative programme for future investigation that can advance understanding of the interrelationships between work and wellbeing.

Book Occupational Stress in South African Work Culture

Download or read book Occupational Stress in South African Work Culture written by Nasima MH Carrim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores avenues for organisations to better understand the origins of occupational stress so as to enable their managerial employees to effectively manage stress levels. By way of the work locus of control as a personality variable, the book identifies stressors both within and outside the organisation that underpin high stress levels in organisational culture. In grappling with what is required in the new workforce of ‘Generation Y’ millennials in a hyper-networked and mobile age, the authors present examples from everyday professional situations in South Africa to contribute to critical understanding of today’s working world. By applying neuroscientific principles developed from a foundation of empirical research, the authors introduce the concepts of a 'red zone’ and ‘blue zone' to explain differences between the brain areas controlled either by its stem-limbic areas, or the limbic-cortical cortex areas, respectively. This becomes a psychological shorthand for describing and applying knowledge to encourage practitioners in leadership and management roles to achieve desired behaviour outcomes, and to establish a framework for understanding employee values and worldviews. The book is relevant to practitioners, postgraduate students and researchers interested in industrial psychology, personality psychology, business management and human resources.

Book A Leader in Need is a Leader Indeed  The Influence of Leaders  Stress Mindset on Their Perception of Employee Well being and Their Intended Leadership Behavior

Download or read book A Leader in Need is a Leader Indeed The Influence of Leaders Stress Mindset on Their Perception of Employee Well being and Their Intended Leadership Behavior written by Antonia J. Kaluza and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to respond appropriately to employees' work-related well-being requires leaders to pay attention to their employees' well-being in the first place. We propose that leaders' stress mindset, that is, the belief that stress is enhancing versus debilitating, may bias their perception of employees' well-being. We further propose that this judgment then influences leaders' intention to engage in or refrain from health-oriented leadership behavior, to express higher performance expectations, or to promote their employees. We expect this process to be stronger if leaders strongly identify with their team, increasing their perceived similarity with their employees. In three experiments (N1)=)198, N2)=)292, N3)=)250), we tested the effect of participants' stress mindset on their intention to show certain leadership behaviors, mediated by their perception of employee well-being (emotional exhaustion, somatic symptoms, work engagement) and moderated by their team identification. Our findings largely support the association between stress mindset and the perception of well-being. The results for the proposed mediation and the moderating function of identification were mixed. Overall, the results emphasize the critical role of leaders' stress mindset and may, thus, improve health promotion in organizations by helping leaders to adequately recognize employees' well-being and respond appropriately.

Book Emotions and Leadership

Download or read book Emotions and Leadership written by Neal M. Ashkanasy and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Research on Emotion in Organizations contributes to the ongoing research on emotions within organizational leadership through a three-level analysis focusing on: leadership and individual team members; leadership and its effects on the team construct; and, leadership in the overall context of organizations and culture.

Book Understanding the High Performance Workplace

Download or read book Understanding the High Performance Workplace written by Neal M. Ashkanasy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks the crucial question: When does high performance supervision become abusive supervision? As more organizations push to adopt high performance work practices (HPWP), the onus increasingly falls on supervisors to do whatever it takes to maximize the productivity of their work teams. In this rigorous, research-based volume, international contributors offer insight into how and when seemingly-beneficial workplace practices cross the line from motivation to abuse. By reviewing critical issues in both high performance work practices and abusive supervision, it illuminates the crossover between these two modes of work, and forges a path for future scholarship.

Book Physical and Psychical Well Being and Stress  The Perspectives of Leaders and Employees

Download or read book Physical and Psychical Well Being and Stress The Perspectives of Leaders and Employees written by Simona Šarotar Žižek and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress among employees is a significant issue in each organization and society because of its costs on individual, organizational, and society levels. Addressing and reducing stress is thus an important goal, which leads humans to well-being. The main role of managing stress at work belongs to leaders. Their leadership can have effects on the level of stress of employees as well as for themselves. They also decide about their systemic approaches for overcoming stress within organizations. We therefore conducted a stress (qualitative and quantitative) research of employees and leaders within organizations with the main goal to find out the differences between their stresses. The main purpose of this article was to research stress among leaders and employees and to compare their perceived physical and psychical well-being (and stress). For this purpose, we used descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney U-test. We confirmed that (1) leaders report a higher frequency of some kinds of the daily work stress than employees, (2) on average, leaders were more frequently under pressure than employees, (3) on average, leaders had more frequently satisfying sleep than employees, and (4) on average, employees could use their strong points at work less frequently than leaders.

Book Creating Psychologically Healthy Workplaces

Download or read book Creating Psychologically Healthy Workplaces written by Ronald J. Burke and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workplaces can often be sources of stress, interfering with both job satisfaction and performance. This book explores ways to combat the factors contributing to an unhealthy workplace by building on the advances in positive psychology and organizational scholarship over the last 15 years.