International Handbook of Work and Health Psychology
ISBN: 9780470998069 | 0470998067
Edition: 3rdFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 1/5/2010
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The immense legal, financial and efficiency implications of workplace health have put it at the very top of the corporate agenda. Exploring the interface between organizational and health psychology, the International Handbook of Work and Health Psychology is the definitive reference to this rapidly growing field. With expert international contributors and new chapters in areas such as positive psychology, well-being, gender differences and older workers, the Third Edition presents the key research behind our understanding of what influences he... MORE
| Introduction | |
| The Context of Work and Health Today | |
| Health and Well-Being: The Role of the Psychological Contract | |
| The Social Context of Work Life: Implications for Burnout and Work Engagement | |
| The Effects of Job Strain on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease | |
| Sickness Presenteeism and Attendance Pressure Factors: Implications for Practice | |
| Individual Differences and Health | ... MORE |
| Individual Differences, Work Stress and Health | |
| Gender and Work Stress Unique Stressors, Unique Responses | |
| Work Experiences, Stress and Health among Managerial Women: Research and Practice | |
| The Role of Workplace Factors on Health | |
| The Role of Job Control in Employee Health and Well-Being | |
| Stress and Careers | |
| New Technologies and Stress | |
| Flexibility at Work in Relation to Employee Health | |
| Acute Stress at Work | |
| Supporting Individuals at Work | |
| Management Development for Well-Being and Survival: Developing the Whole Person | |
| Coaching in Organizations | |
| Wome's Coping: Communal Versus Individualistic Orientation | |
| Employee Assistance Programs: A Research-Based Primer | |
| Organizational Approaches to Health and Well-Being | |
| Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change and Stress | |
| Building Interventions to Improve Staff Well-Being | |
| Stress and Effectiveness: An Approach for Changing Organizational Culture | |
| Epilogue | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Cary L. Cooper CBE is Pro Vice Chancellor for External Relations and Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University. He is Chair of The Sunningdale Institute in the National School of Government, Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, President of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, and Editor of the journal Stress and Health.
James Campbell Quick is John and Judy Goolsby Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, and Visiting Professor at Lancaster University Management School. His numerous honours include the 2002 Harry and Miriam Levinson Award from the APF/APA Division 13, and the Legion of Merit from the United States Air Force. James has over 100 publications available in ten languages.
Marc J. Schabracq teaches courses on work and health psychology at the University of Amsterdam and is an independent organizational consultant in human aspects of production and change in both profit and non-profit organizations. He has produced more than 20 scholarly and professional books on psychology, as well as more than 100 articles and book chapters.
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