Overview

During the past two decades, the nature of work has changed dramatically, as more and more organizations downsize, outsource and move toward short-term contracts, part-time working and teleworking. The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen accordingly in terms of increased sickness absence, labour turnover, burnout, premature death and decreased productivity. This book, in one volume, provides all the major theories of organizational stress from the leading researchers and writers in the field. It is a guide to identifying the sources of pressures in jobs and the workplace so that we may be able to intervene to change and manage the growing problem of organizational stress.

Full Product Details

Author:   Cary L. Cooper (Professor of Organizational Psychology and Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780198297055

ISBN 10:   019829705
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   16 March 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Cary L. Cooper: Introduction 1: Terry Beehr: An Organizational Psychology Meta-Model of Occupational Stress 2: Jeffrey R. Edwards, Robert D. Caplan, and R. Van Harrison: Person-Environment Fit Theory 3: Christina Maslach: A Multidimensional Theory of Burnout 4: Ellen I. Shupe and Joseph E. McGrath: Stress and the Sojourner 5: Thomas G. Cummings and Cary L. Cooper: A Cybernetic Theory of Organizational Stress 6: Jeffrey R. Edwards: Cybernetic Theory of Stress, Coping, and Well-Being 7: Paul E. Spector: A Control Theory of the Job Stress Process 8: Doris Fay, Sabine Sonnentag, and Michael Frese: Stressors, Innovation, and Personal Initiative 9: Johannes Siegrist: Adverse Health Effects of Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work 10: Tores Theorell: Job Characteristics in a Theoretical and Practical Health Context 11: Marc Schabracq: The Ethological Theory of Stress 12: Jonathan D. Quick, James Campbell Quick, and Debra L. Nelson: The Theory of Preventive Stress Management in Organizations

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Good research needs to be theoretically driven as well as methodologically sophisticated, and this book can certainly help with the former requirement. Adrian Furnham, THES 24/3/00. Cooper has become exceptionally well connected, and he clearly knows all the world's leading researchers. Adrian Furnham, THES 24/3/00.

Cooper has become exceptionally well connected, and he clearly knows all the world's leading researchers. * Adrian Furnham, THES 24/3/00. * Good research needs to be theoretically driven as well as methodologically sophisticated, and this book can certainly help with the former requirement. * Adrian Furnham, THES 24/3/00. *

Author Information

Cary L. Cooper is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behaviour (Wiley & Sons) and is also on the Editorial Board of many other journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, British Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Leadership and Organization Development Journal, and the Employee Rights and Responsibility Journal. He is a contributor to many national broadsheet newspapers and appears regularly on British radio and TV. Professor Cooper is Chair of the British Academy of Management Fellowship Committee; former Chair of Alcohol Concern's commission on a National Strategy for Training in Alcohol Work; and Chair of the Higher Education Funding Council's Research Assessment Exercise for all UK Business and Management Schools.

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