Preventive Stress Management in Organizations

by James Campbell Quick, Thomas A. Wright, Joyce A. Adkins, Debra L. Nelson, and Jonathan D. Quick

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Preventive Stress Management in Organizations, Second Edition offers a comprehensive framework for creating healthy workplaces.

Chapters examine individual and organizational sources of stress and their consequences; methods and instruments for diagnosing organizational and individual stress; ways to redesign work and improve professional relationships; and methods for managing demands and stressors. New findings from positive psychology are woven in. Methods designed to proactively enhance health and performance at work while averting the costs and discomfort of distress are explored and illustrated by examples drawn from healthy organizations.

Preventive stress management is a philosophy and set of principles grounded in public health, which organizational leaders and consultants can use to help their organization operate to its fullest potential. The approaches outlined in this book may be implemented by leaders in any organization.
  • ISBN10 1433811855
  • ISBN13 9781433811852
  • Publish Date 15 August 2012 (first published 31 July 1997)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint American Psychological Association
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 247
  • Language English