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Publication Date:
15 Oct 2009
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Description
Now in its third edition, this authoritative handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of work and health psychology. O Updated edition of a highly successful handbook O Focuses on the applied aspects of work and health psychology O New chapters cover emerging themes in this rapidly growingaafield O Prestigious team of editors and contributors
Contents
About the Editors. List of Contributors. Chapter 1 Introduction (Gary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq). Part I: The Context of Work and Health Today. Chapter 2 Health and Well-Being: The Role of the Psychological Contract (David Guest and Neil Conway). Chapter 3 The Social Context of Work Life: Implications for Burnout and Work Engagement (Michael P. Leiter and Naomi Stright). Chapter 4 The Effects of Job Strain on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease (Arie Shirom, Galit Armon, Shlomo Berliner, Itzhak Shapira and Samuel Melamed). Chapter 5 Sickness Presenteeism and Attendance Pressure Factors: Implications for Practice (Caroline Biron and Per Oystein Saksvik). Part II: Individual Differences and Health. Chapter 6 Individual Differences, Work Stress and Health (Norbert K. Semmer and Laurenz L. Meier). Chapter 7 Gender and Work Stress: Unique Stressors, Unique Responses (Faye K. Cocchiara and Myrtle P. Bell). Chapter 8 Work Experiences, Stress and Health among Managerial Women: Research and Practice (Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen). Part III: The Role of Workplace Factors on Health. Chapter 9 The Role of Job Control in Employee Health and Well-Being (Paul E. Spector). Chapter 10 Stress and Careers (Yehuda Baruch). Chapter 11 New Technologies and Stress (Kai-Christoph Hamborg and Siegfried Greif). Chapter 12 Flexibility at Work in Relation to Employee Health (Tores Theorell). Chapter 13 Acute Stress at Work (Rolf J. Kleber and Peter G. van der Velden). Part IV: Supporting Individuals at Work. Chapter 14 Management Development for Well-Being and Survival: Developing the Whole Person (Rosemary Maellaro and J. Lee Whittington). Chapter 15 Coaching in Organizations (Helen Williams and Stephen Palmer). Chapter 16 Women s Coping: Communal Versus Individualistic Orientation (Pamela A. Geller, Stevan E. Hobfoll and Carla Dunahoo). Chapter 17 Employee Assistance Programs: A Research-Based Primer (Mark Attridge). Part V: Organizational Approaches to Health and Well-Being. Chapter 18 Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change and Stress (Manfred Kets de Vries, Laura Guillen Ramo and Konstantin Korotov). Chapter 19 Building Interventions to Improve Staff Well-Being (Gordon Tinline and Ben Moss). Chapter 20 Stress and Effectiveness: An Approach for Changing Organizational Culture (Marc J. Schabracq and Iva Smit). Chapter 21 Epilogue (Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq). Index.
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