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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview of the Book and Business Context
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What is Stress? Background and Importance
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Stress An Organizational Perspective
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Managing the Stress of Others
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Reviews
'Investing in Health and Wellbeing is key to ensuring the engagement of employees and sustaining a culture of high performance. This book is an invaluable guide, offering insight, education and practical resources to HR and Occupational Health professionals. Its holistic approach gets underneath the complex and sensitive matter of managing stress within the workplace and will help organisations proactively plan Wellbeing strategy. Supporting employees in balancing the demands and pressure they face in work and life.' - Andrea Knight, Human Resources Manager, Microsoft Ltd
'Stress is a significant occupational health & safety issue. Employers have to deal with occupational stress in the same way they would deal with any other health & safety issue; identifying the hazard, assessing the risk and implementing controls. This book provides a valuable and practical guide to employers on how to manage stress within this management framework.' - Mike Wagland, BT Retail Lead Health & Safety Adviser
'With the cost of stress related absence skyrocketing and an ever increasing Litigious culture emerging from a stressed out, overworked workforce this book will be the foundation upon which many HR and senior management professionals can begin to make sense of and deal with the epidemic which has become known as stress.' - Tony Urwin , Clinical & Business Development Manager, BUPA Psychological Services
About the authors
ALYSSA ABBEY is a physiologist who has specialised in maximising performance in the work environment. After post-graduate work and early career in corporate health screening, she studied stress management and began organisational consultancy and workshop facilitation. As BUPA's manager of corporate wellbeing, she was widely quoted in the media and a regular conference speaker. Since September 2003, she has run her own consultancy practice and has been at the forefront of unravelling HSE guidance and occupational health best practice for organisations to find workable solutions to stress issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Organizational Stress
Authors: Jane Cranwell-Ward, Alyssa Abbey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522800
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4501-3Published: 14 June 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-52280-0Published: 14 June 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 254
Topics: Management, Human Resource Management