Download or read book The Scale of Occupational Stress written by Andrew Smith and published by . This book was released on 2000-12-18 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scale of Occupational Stress : A Further Analysis of the Impact of Demographic Factors and Type of Job
Download or read book The Occupational Stress Index written by Karen Belkić and published by Cambridge International Science Pub. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of interest to occupational health psychologists, industrial hygienists, ergonomists, as well as to labor and management, inter alia, the Occupational Stress Index can also be integrated with objective measurements and expert observer assessment of job characteristics. In particular, the OSI could detect areas for which in-depth observational analysis is needed, especially with a view to possibilities for practical improvements in the work environment.
Download or read book Taking the Measure of Work written by Dail L. Fields and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a handbook for people who want to assure the use of reliable and valid questionnaires for collecting information about organizations. It significantly reduces the time and effort required for obtaining validated multi-question measures of aspects of organizational ‘health’ such as employee job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational justice, and workplace behaviors. It helps users in measuring some factors underlying employee perceptions of work such as job characteristics, role ambiguity or conflict, job stress, and the extent to which employees believe their values and those of the organization are congruent. All the measures in the book have been used and tested in research studies published in the 1990’s. In addition, all the measures describe the extent and types of reliability and validity tests that have been completed, a feature that organizational researchers should find particularly useful. All in all, this book is a handy tool to increase the efficiency of researchers, consultants, managers, or organizational development specialists in obtaining reliable and valid information about how employees view their jobs and organizations.
Download or read book An Introduction to Work and Organizational Psychology written by Nik Chmiel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition provides a comprehensive European introduction to issues in work and organisational psychology. It contains case studies, graphics, a range of instructor support, and a variety of pedagogical features.
Download or read book Occupational Stress written by Sally Hardy and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unique theoretical and practical overview of the issues relating to stress and burnout among healthcare professionals. Occupational stress offers guidance and advice on many subjects, including the maintenance of a healthy workforce.
Download or read book Exploring Theoretical Mechanisms and Perspectives written by Pamela L. Perrewe and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring Theoretical Mechanisms and Perspectives."
Download or read book Occupational Stress written by Rick Crandall and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together renowned scholars, this handbook contains innovative current empirical and theoretical research in the area of job stress. The workplace is one of the major sources of stress in an individual's life. Placing this important topic in the context of a transactional process, this work is intended to be of use to practitioners working in clinical, organisational, family and health psychology, mental health, substance abuse, the military, and with families and women.; Chapters are arranged in five parts, the first considering theoretical approaches with an introductory article by Professor Emeritus Richard S. Lazarus. Next is an examination of various model testing formats, followed by a section on occupational stress research and coping mechanisms. Fourth is a collection of articles on the subject of burnout, and the book closes with two distinct interventions directed at stress reduction.
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect written by Liu-Qin Yang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you struggling to improve a hostile or uncomfortable environment at work, or interested in how such tension can arise? Experts in organizational psychology, management science, social psychology, and communication science show you how to implement interventions and programs to manage workplace emotion. The connection between workplace affect and relevant challenges in our society, such as diversity and technological changes, is undeniable; thus learning to harness that knowledge can revolutionize your performance in tackling workday issues. Applying major theoretical perspectives and research methodologies, this book outlines the concepts of display rules, emotional labor, work motivation, well-being, and discrete emotions. Understanding these ideas will show you how affect can promote team effectiveness, leadership, and conflict resolution. If you require a foundation for understanding workplace affect or a springboard into deeper, more interdisciplinary research, this book presents an integrative approach that is indispensable.
Download or read book Stress in Health and Disease written by Bengt B. Arnetz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-12-13 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to address the most urgent issues, combining a solid basic research approach with applied individual and stress issues, including interventions. Throughout, the focus is on our latest knowledge about various causes of stress and its neuro-cognitive and biological implications. World-renowned authors from Europe as well as the US describe how stress affects the brain of young people as well as adults. They cover the topic from all perspectives, showing how stress affects life in general, from the societal and organizational level to the individual, organ and molecular level. While the book clearly points out stress as a risk factor to health, it also offers a number of evidence-based methods to cope with stress and even ride the positive energy of stress - both as an individual, as well as what managers can do to create a healthy and productive workplace. Written in a reader-friendly and appealing style, the book provides real-life examples from various laboratories, as well as such events as the Volvo Ocean Race, the largest around-the-globe sailing competition. Essential reading for clinicians and biologists, as well as for a wide range of students, including medicine and public health, but also managers and HR staff. With a Foreword by Nobel Laureate Professor Arvid Carlsson (Medicine 2000).
Download or read book Stress and Coping written by D M Pestonjee and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1999-04-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and updated edition, the author has incorporated new findings and the latest research of the much studied, but still little-understood, phenomenon of stress. Dealing with issues of great significance to both individuals and organizations in today's fast-paced world, this book will be of considerable interest to HRD personnel, management experts, psychiatrists, sociologists, counsellors, psychologists and trainers.
Download or read book The Handbook of Stress and Health written by Cary Cooper and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive work that brings together and explores state-of-the-art research on the link between stress and health outcomes. Offers the most authoritative resource available, discussing a range of stress theories as well as theories on preventative stress management and how to enhance well-being Timely given that stress is linked to seven of the ten leading causes of death in developed nations, yet paradoxically successful adaptation to stress can enable individuals to flourish Contributors are an international panel of authoritative researchers and practitioners in the various specialty subjects addressed within the work
Download or read book The Economic Crisis and Occupational Stress written by Ritsa Fotinatos-Ventouratos and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: øThe global economic crisis of 2008 caused the collapse of the world�s financial institutions, large-scale unemployment, the devaluing of housing stocks leading to mortgage defaults and left many countries in debt, unable to meet their financial obliga
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 Occupational Stress written by Rick Crandall and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together renowned scholars, this handbook contains innovative current empirical and theoretical research in the area of job stress. The workplace is one of the major sources of stress in an individual's life. Placing this important topic in the context of a transactional process, this work is intended to be of use to practitioners working in clinical, organisational, family and health psychology, mental health, substance abuse, the military, and with families and women.; Chapters are arranged in five parts, the first considering theoretical approaches with an introductory article by Professor Emeritus Richard S. Lazarus. Next is an examination of various model testing formats, followed by a section on occupational stress research and coping mechanisms. Fourth is a collection of articles on the subject of burnout, and the book closes with two distinct interventions directed at stress reduction.
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Download or read book Occupational Stress in the Service Professions written by Maureen Dollard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workers in the service industry face unique types and levels of stress, and this problem is worsening. Many workers and organizations are now recognizing work stress as a significant personal and organizational cost, and seeing the need to evaluate a range of organizational issues that present psychosocial hazards to the workers. Occupation
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Occupational Stress written by Philippe Fauquet-Alekhine and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-24 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook brings together an international group of experts to offer a comprehensive resource on occupational stress. Including both theoretical and practical perspectives, it examines ways to reduce and treat stress, as well as the physiological, psychosocial, and neural underpinnings of it. Through 24 original and carefully selected essays, the authors offer new insights, resources, and tools to better understand, manage and treat stress in a professional environment. The book’s chapters are divided into 5 parts that address the conceptualisation of stress; present theoretical models (including the contribution of animal models); examine the psychological and physiological aspects of stress and ways to assess it; delve into psychosocial risks at work and their assessment (means and methods); and investigate how to cope with stress at work, including resilience training. Aspects such as the effects of leadership, simulation training, and stress-tests for hiring are also presented and discussed. The volume ends by exploring broader considerations regarding stress and culture, stress and occupational sectors (with a chapter focusing on studentship), and the pharmacology of stress. This handbook is an essential reference for researchers in organisational psychology, as well as business and management and education, who are interested in stress. Healthcare workers and therapists who treat stress will also find an invaluable resource in this far-reaching yet accessible collection.
