The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen, according to recent statistics revealing an increase in the number of sick days taken, labor turnover, employee burnout, premature death and decreased productivity. In one volume, this book provides all the major theories of organizational stress from the leading researchers and writers in the field.

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: Terry Beehr: An Organizational Psychology Meta Model of Occupational Stress


• 2: Jeffrey R. Edwards, Robert D. Caplan, and R. Van Harrison: Person-Environment Fit Theory: Conceptual Foundations, Empirical Evidence, and Directions for Future Research


• 3: Christina Maslach: A Multidimensional Theory of Burnout


• 4: Ellen I. Shupe and Joseph E. McGrath: Stress and the Sojourner


• 5: Thomas G. Cummings and Cary L. Cooper: A Cybernetic Theory of Organizational Stress


• 6: Jeffrey R. Edwards: Cybernetic Theory of Stress, Coping, and Well-Being: Review and Extension to Work and Family


• 7: Paul E. Spector: A Control Theory of the Job Stress Process


• 8: Doris Fay, Sabine Sonnentag, and Michael Frese: Stress, Innovation and Personal Initiative: Are Stressors Always Detrimental?


• 9: Johannes Siegrist: Adverse Health Effects of Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work: Theory, Empirical Support and Implications for Prevention


• 10: Töres Torell: Job Characteristics in a Theoretical and Practical Health Context


• 11: Marc Schabracq: The Ethological Theory of Stress: About Work Stress and Wisdom


• 12: Jonathan D. Quick, James Campbell Quick, and Debra L. Nelson: The Theory of Preventative Stress Management in Organizations

Cary 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.