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A comprehensive collection by Professor Cary Cooper and his colleagues in the field of workplace stress and wellbeing, which draws on research in a number of areas including stress-strain relationships, sources of workplace stress and stressful occupations. Volume 2 of 2.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Tables (p. ix)
• List of Figures (p. xi)
• Acknowledgements (p. xii)
• Notes on Contributors (p. xv)
• Part VI Stress Management
• 23 Worksite Stress Management Interventions: Their Effectiveness and Conceptualisation (p. 3)
• 24 Stress and Coping in US Organizations: The Role of the Employee Assistance Programme (p. 14)
• 25 Healthy Mind; Healthy Organization - A Proactive Approach to Occupational Stress (p. 32)
• 26 Coping with Work-related Stress: A Critique of Existing Measures and Proposal for an Alternative Methodology (p. 48)
• 27 Health Behaviours Reported as Coping Strategies: A Factor Analytical Study (p. 62)
• 28 A Multiple Case Study Approach to Work Stress Prevention in Europe (p. 85)
• 29 The Development of a Framework for a Comprehensive Approach to Stress Management Interventions at Work (p. 113)
• Part VII Stress and Wellbeing issues
• 30 The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on People at Work: Existing Research and Issues (p. 131)
• 31 Workers' Compensation in Stress-Related Claims: Some Thoughts for Employers in the UK (p. 150)
• 32 Employee Stress Litigation: The UK Experience (p. 157)
• 33 The Experience of Bullying in Great Britain: The Impact of Organizational Status (p. 169)
• Part VIII Work-Life Balance
• 34 Stress in Two-Earner Couples and Stages in the Life-cycle (p. 193)
• 35 Balancing the Work/Home Interface: A European Perspective (p. 212)
• 36 Family-Responsive Interventions, Perceived Organizational and Supervisor Support, Work-Family Conflict and Psychological Strain (p. 229)
• 37 Family-Supportive Organization Perceptions, Multiple Dimensions of Work-Family Conflict, and Employee Satisfaction: A Test of Model across Five Samples (p. 246)
• Part IX Wellbeing
• 38 The Mental Wealth of Nations (p. 271)
• 39 Well-being - Absenteeism, Presenteeism, Costs and Challenges 280 C. L. Cooper
• Index (p. 285)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Cary L. Cooper is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the Lancaster University Management School, UK. He is the author of over 125 books, has written over 400 scholarly articles, and is a frequent contributor to national newspapers, television and radio. He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and also of the US-based Academy of Management. In 2001 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. He was Founding President of the British Academy of Management, and formerly the Chair of the Sunningdale Institute in the National School of Government, UK. He was also the lead scientist to the UK Government Office for Science on their Foresight programme on Mental Capital and Wellbeing, and was appointed to the expert advisory team to the Public Health committee of NICE. Professor Cooper is Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, former President of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, President of RELATE, President of the Institute of Welfare and Patron of Anxiety, UK. HR Magazine named him the 4th Most Influential Thinker in HR in 2012. He was awarded the Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award at the Times Higher Education Awards 2010.