Examining the Paradox of Occupational Stressors


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Examining the Paradox of Occupational Stressors: Building Resilience or Creating Depletion represents insightful, intriguing, and timely research into the paradox of experienced stress in the workplace.




Exploring the Work and Non-Work Interface


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Examines occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. This book explores the work and non-work interface which discusses, amongst others, social anxiety, the importance of coping, working with family, women in the workplace and work addiction.




Stress and Well-Being in Teams


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Stress and Well-Being in Teams is focused on stress and well-being in the context of teams, focused on how inputs of team processes, such as team compositions, leadership, and broader organizational contexts can serve as antecedents of team members’ stress and well-being.




Stress and Well-Being at the Strategic Level


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Highlighting how both leader and follower stress and well-being can serve as antecedents and consequences of strategic actions and initiatives, or even be a core concern of strategic plans, this volume spotlights the importance of stress and well-being for organizations, their leaders, and the individuals who are impacted by their decisions.




Work and Stress: A Research Overview


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Stress is a leading cause of ill health in the workplace. This shortform book analyses, summarises and contextualises research around stress at work. The book begins by exploring the impact and challenges of technology and the challenging and changing contours and boundaries of the nature of work. Using a behaviour lens, the authors draw on cyberpsychology to illuminate the choices we make to balance life, work and wellbeing. The changing nature of work is analysed, shifting structures and boundaries explored and the stress consequences of such themes as the gig economy and precarious work are also included in the book. A compelling framework for researchers of work, organisation and psychology, this concise book is also valuable reading for reflective practitioners, seeking to understand the importance of wellbeing in the workplace




The Role of Individual Differences in Occupational Stress and Well Being


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Deals with the examination of occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. This title also examines the role of individual difference in occupational stress, health and well being.




Research in Occupational Stress and Well being


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Focuses on processes related to recovery and unwinding from job stress. This book demonstrates that recovery research is a very promising approach for understanding the processes of job stress and relieve from job stress more fully.




Exploring Interpersonal Dynamics


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This is an annual research series devoted to the examination of occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. The intent is to pull together the various streams of research from a variety of disciplines to better capture the significant bodies of work in occupational stress and well being. We provide a multidisciplinary and international perspective that gives a thorough and critical assessment of issues in occupational stress and well being. The theme for this volume is: Exploring Interpersonal Dynamics. It covers - Workplace Aggression and Violence against Individuals and Organizations: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions; The Radiating Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Occupational Stress and Well Being; The Changing Nature of Job Stress: Risk and Resources; Job Characteristics and Learning Behavior: Review and Psychological Mechanisms; Organizational Stress Through the Lens of Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory; The Role of 'Happiness' in Organizational Research: Past, Present and Future Directions; Display Rules and Strain in Service Jobs: What's Fairness Got to do With It? Stress and Well Being in the Context of Mentoring Processes: New Perspectives and Directions for Future Research.