Examining And Exploring The Shifting Nature Of Occupational Stress And Well Being

This volume explores and enhances our understanding of how stress and well-being at work can change over time.

Examines occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. This book explores the work and non-work interface which discusses, amongst others, social anxiety, the importance of coping, working with family, women in the workplace and work addiction.

Examining the Paradox of Occupational Stressors: Building Resilience or Creating Depletion represents insightful, intriguing, and timely research into the paradox of experienced stress in the workplace.

Presents an examination of occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. This book offers a critical assessment of issues in occupational stress and well being.

Highlighting how both leader and follower stress and well-being can serve as antecedents and consequences of strategic actions and initiatives, or even be a core concern of strategic plans, this volume spotlights the importance of stress and well-being for organizations, their leaders, and the individuals who are impacted by their decisions.

Deals with the examination of occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. This title also examines the role of individual difference in occupational stress, health and well being.

This book examines stress in organizational contexts. The authors review the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its associated problems. One chapter is devoted to examining an extreme form of occupational stress--burnout, which has been found to have severe consequences for individuals and their organizations. The book closes with a discussion of scenarios for jobs and work in the new millennium, and the potential sources of stress that these scenarios may generate.

Focuses on processes related to recovery and unwinding from job stress. This book demonstrates that recovery research is a very promising approach for understanding the processes of job stress and relieve from job stress more fully.