Theories of Organizational Stress
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Theories of Organizational Stress by Cary L Cooper
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, provides all 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.
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. *
Cooper has become exceptionally well connected, and he clearly knows all the world's leading researchers. * Adrian Furnham, THES 24/3/00. *
Cary L. 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 national broadsheet 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198297055 |
| ISBN 10 | 019829705X |
| Title | Theories of Organizational Stress |
| Author | Cary L Cooper |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2000-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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