Organizational Stress: A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications (Foundations for Organizational Science) - Hardcover

Cooper, Cary L.; Dewe, Philip J.; O′Driscoll, Michael P

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761914803 ISBN 13: 9780761914808

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2001

Synopsis

This book is a new comprehensive and thought-provoking resource that examines stress in organizational contexts. It reviews 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. It focuses on the future of work, where it is going and the role industrial and organizational psychologists can play in better understanding the dynamics of occupational stress. An excellent resource for Ph.D. students, academics and professionals.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Dewe is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. He graduated with a Masters degree in management and administration from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and with an MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics. After a period of work in commerce in New Zealand he became a Senior Research Officer in the Work Research Unit, Department of Employment (UK). In 1980 he joined Massey University in New Zealand and headed the Department of Human Resource Management until joining the Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London in 2000. Research interests include work stress and coping, emotions and human resource accounting. He is a member of the editorial board of Work & Stress. He has written widely in the area of work stress and coping.

Synopsis:

Examines stress in organizational contexts, reviewing the sources and outcomes of job-related stress and addressing methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress. Discussion also includes strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its associated problems (an entire chapter is devote

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761914803
• ISBN 13: 9780761914808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288