Description
Now in its third edition, this authoritative handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of work and health psychology.
- Updated edition of a highly successful handbook
- Focuses on the applied aspects of work and health psychology
- New chapters cover emerging themes in this rapidly growing field
- Prestigious team of editors and contributors
Table of Contents
About the Editors ix
List of Contributors xi
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq
Part I: The Context ofWork and Health Today 7
Chapter 2 Health andWell-Being: The Role of the Psychological Contract 9
David Guest and Neil Conway
Chapter 3 The Social Context of Work Life: Implications for Burnout and Work Engagement 25
Michael P. Leiter and Naomi Stright
Chapter 4 The Effects of Job Strain on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease 49
Arie Shirom, Galit Armon, Shlomo Berliner, Itzhak Shapira and Samuel Melamed
Chapter 5 Sickness Presenteeism and Attendance Pressure Factors: Implications for Practice 77
Caroline Biron and Per Øystein Saksvik
Part II: Individual Differences and Health 97
Chapter 6 Individual Differences, Work Stress and Health 99
Norbert K. Semmer and Laurenz L. Meier
Chapter 7 Gender and Work Stress: Unique Stressors, Unique Responses 123
Faye K. Cocchiara and Myrtle P. Bell
Chapter 8 Work Experiences, Stress and Health among Managerial Women: Research and Practice 147
Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen
Part III: The Role ofWorkplace Factors on Health 171
Chapter 9 The Role of Job Control in Employee Health and Well-Being 173
Paul E. Spector
Chapter 10 Stress and Careers 197
Yehuda Baruch
Chapter 11 New Technologies and Stress 221
Kai-Christoph Hamborg and Siegfried Greif
Chapter 12 Flexibility at Work in Relation to Employee Health 251
T¨ores Theorell
Chapter 13 Acute Stress at Work 269
Rolf J. Kleber and Peter G. van der Velden
Part IV: Supporting Individuals atWork 293
Chapter 14 Management Development for Well-Being and Survival: Developing the Whole Person 295
Rosemary Maellaro and J. Lee Whittington
Chapter 15 Coaching in Organizations 329
Helen Williams and Stephen Palmer
Chapter 16 Women’s Coping: Communal Versus Individualistic Orientation 353
Pamela A. Geller, Stevan E. Hobfoll and Carla Dunahoo
Chapter 17 Employee Assistance Programs: A Research-Based Primer 383
Mark Attridge
Part V: Organizational Approaches to Health andWell-Being 409
Chapter 18 Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change and Stress 411
Manfred Kets de Vries, Laura Guill´en Ramo and Konstantin Korotov
Chapter 19 Building Interventions to Improve Staff Well-Being 427
Gordon Tinline and Ben Moss
Chapter 20 Stress and Effectiveness: An Approach for Changing Organizational Culture 445
Marc J. Schabracq and Iva Smit
Chapter 21 Epilogue 471
Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq
Index 477
