Theories of Organizational Stress by Cary L. Cooper (English) Hardcover Book

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The nature of work has changed dramatically, as organizations downsize and outsource, and utilize short-term contracts, part-time working and teleworking. In correlation, stress levels have also risen. This text provides the major theories of organizational stress and identifies pressures.

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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, providesall 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 beable to intervene to change and manage the growing problem of organizational stress.

Author Biography

Cary 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 nationalbroadsheet 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.

Table of Contents

Lennart Levi: PrefaceCary L. Cooper: Introduction1: Terry Beehr: An Organizational Psychology Meta Model of Occupational Stress2: Jeffrey R. Edwards, Robert D. Caplan, and R. Van Harrison: Person-Environment Fit Theory: Conceptual Foundations, Empirical Evidence, and Directions for Future Research3: Christina Maslach: A Multidimensional Theory of Burnout4: Ellen I. Shupe and Joseph E. McGrath: Stress and the Sojourner5: Thomas G. Cummings and Cary L. Cooper: A Cybernetic Theory of Organizational Stress6: Jeffrey R. Edwards: Cybernetic Theory of Stress, Coping, and Well-Being: Review and Extension to Work and Family7: Paul E. Spector: A Control Theory of the Job Stress Process8: Doris Fay, Sabine Sonnentag, and Michael Frese: Stress, Innovation and Personal Initiative: Are Stressors Always Detrimental?9: Johannes Siegrist: Adverse Health Effects of Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work: Theory, Empirical Support and Implications for Prevention10: Töres Torell: Job Characteristics in a Theoretical and Practical Health Context11: Marc Schabracq: The Ethological Theory of Stress: About Work Stress and Wisdom12: Jonathan D. Quick, James Campbell Quick, and Debra L. Nelson: The Theory of Preventative Stress Management in Organizations

Review

`The theories presented within this book will no doubt be useful in future research which relates stress and coping to organizational behaviour.'Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology`This book is a valuable contribution to theory and research in the field of organizational psychology. Its greatest contribution is in the fact that it brings together a multitude of theories of organizational stress and attempts to integrate them with research and practice.'Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology`This book, with its emphasis on theory-informed research, adds a unique contribution to the field of organizational stress'Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology`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.

Long Description

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, providesall 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.

Review Text

`The theories presented within this book will no doubt be useful in future research which relates stress and coping to organizational behaviour.'Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology`This book is a valuable contribution to theory and research in the field of organizational psychology. Its greatest contribution is in the fact that it brings together a multitude of theories of organizational stress and attempts to integrate them with research and practice.'Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology`This book, with its emphasis on theory-informed research, adds a unique contribution to the field of organizational stress'Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology`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.

Review Quote

'This book, with its emphasis on theory-informed research, adds a uniquecontribution to the field of organizational stress'Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

Feature

Cary L. Cooper is the leading figure in this fieldRenowned international contributorsFirst time theories of organizational stress have been contained in one volumeIncludes assessments of burnout, personenvironment fit theory, cybernetic theory of stress, and the theory of preventative stress management

Details ISBN0198522797 Language English ISBN-10 0198522797 ISBN-13 9780198522799 Media Book Format Hardcover Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Cary L. Cooper Short Title THEORIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL STR Position Professor of Organizational Psychology and Pro-Vice Chancellor Affiliation Professor of Organizational Psychology and Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology DOI 10.1604/9780198522799 UK Release Date 1998-10-29 AU Release Date 1998-10-29 NZ Release Date 1998-10-29 Author Cary L. Cooper Pages 294 Publisher Oxford University Press Year 1998 Publication Date 1998-10-29 Alternative 9780198297055 DEWEY 158.72 Illustrations 32 black and white line figures, 3 tables Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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