£159.95
Publication Date:
05 Feb 2014
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Description
Part of the six-volume reference set Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, this volume is a comprehensive look at wellbeing in the workplace at organizational, managerial, and individual levels. Discusses the implications of theory and practice in the field of workplace wellbeing Incorporates not only coverage of workplace stress in relation to wellbeing, but also aspects of positive psychology Explores the role of governments in promoting work place well being Part of the six-volume set Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, which brings together leading research on wellbeing from across the social sciences Topics include work-life balance; coping strategies and characters of individuals; characteristics of workplaces and organizational strategies that are conducive to wellbeing; and many more
Contents
About the Editors ix Contributors xi Full Contents of Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide xiii Introduction to Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide xxvii Part 1 Introduction 1 1 Introduction: From Stress to Happiness 3 Peter Y. Chen and Cary L. Cooper 2 Conceptualizing and Measuring Wellbeing at Work 9 Cynthia D. Fisher Part 2 Resources, Coping, and Control 35 3 Job DemandswResources Theory 37 Arnold B. Bakker and Evangelia Demerouti 4 Positive Psychology and Coping: Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship 65 Philip Dewe 5 The Role of Workplace Control in Positive Health and Wellbeing 91 Erin M. Eatough and Paul E. Spector Part 3 Happy Workers and Happy Organizations 111 6 The Happy Worker: Revisiting the Happy Productive Worker Thesis 113 Peter Hosie and Nada ElRakhawy 7 Organizational Characteristics of Happy Organizations 139 Bret L. Simmons Part 4 Character and Wellbeing 157 8 Character and Wellbeing 159 Thomas A. Wright and Tyler Lauer 9 Stress, Health, and Wellbeing in Practice: Workplace Leadership and Leveraging Stress for Positive Outcomes 175 James Campbell Quick, Joel Bennett, and M. Blake Hargrove Part 5 Organizational Strategies to Promote Wellbeing 205 10 Cancer, Work, and the Quality of Working Life: A Narrative Review 207 Tom Cox, Sara MacLennan, and James N'Dow 11 Lead Well, Be Well: Leadership Behaviors Influence Employee Wellbeing 235 Jennifer Robertson and Julian Barling 12 Organizational Coping Strategies and Wellbeing 253 Gordon Tinline and Matthew Smeed 13 Workplace Mistreatment: Recent Developments in Theory, Research, and Interventions 263 Michael Hanrahan and Michael P. Leiter 14 The Sustainable Workforce: Organizational Strategies for Promoting Work Life Balance and Wellbeing 295 Ellen Ernst Kossek, Monique Valcour, and Pamela Lirio 15 Development of a Theoretically Grounded Model of Sexual Harassment Awareness Training Effectiveness 319 Lisa M. Kath and Vicki J. Magley 16 The Working Wounded: Stigma and Return to Work 339 Lori Francis, James E. Cameron, E. Kevin Kelloway, Victor M. Catano, Arla L. Day, and C. Gail Hepburn 17 Job Stress in University Academics: Evidence from an Australian National Study 357 Anthony H. Winefield Part 6 From Research to National Policy 379 18 Longitudinal Research in Occupational Stress: A Review of Methodological Issues 381 Robert C. Brusso, Konstantin P. Cigularov, and Rachel C. Callan 19 Measuring Wellbeing in Modern Societies 409 Paul Allin Index 465
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