Introduction / Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick & Marc J. Schabracq -- Health and well-being : the role of the psychological contract / David Guest & Neil Conway -- The social context of work life : implications for burnout and work engagement / Michael P. Leiter & Naomi Str…
Now in its third edition, this handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of work and health psychology. Workplace health is now recognised as having major legal, financial and efficiency implications for organizations. Psychologists are increasingly called on as cons…
The costs of stress and ill-health to society are enormous. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on workplace initiatives to reduce stress and improve individual resilience. This volume brings chief medical officers, leading health professionals and academics to p…
The costs of stress and ill-health to society are enormous. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on workplace initiatives to reduce stress and improve individual resilience. This volume brings chief medical officers, leading health professionals and academics to p…
We are facing an epidemic of work stress. But why should problems at work which previously led to industrial disputes and political activity now be experienced as a cause of physical or mental illness? This book combines a critique of the scientific evidence relating to work str…
We are facing an epidemic of work stress. This study combines a critique of the scientific evidence relating to work stress, with an account of the social, historical and cultural changes that produced this phenomenon.