| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Matter -- Introduction -- Why Managing Stress is Important: The Business and Legal Reasons -- How to Manage Work-Related Stress -- Developing a Framework to Promote Positive Manager Behaviour -- Respectful and Responsible: Managing Emotions and Having Integrity (Management Competency 1) -- Managing and Communicating Existing and Future Work (Management Competency 2) -- Managing the Individual within the Team (Management Competency 3) -- Reasoning/Managing Difficult Situations (Management Competency 4) -- Overcoming Barriers to Positive Manager Behaviour -- Supporting Managers to Change their Behaviour -- Is Stress Management Just Good Management? -- The Way Forward -- Appendix -- Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Why managing stress is important : the business, legal, and moral reasons -- How to manage work-related stress -- Developing a framework to promote positive manager behaviour -- Respectful and responsible : managing emotions and having integrity (Management Competency 1) -- Managing and communicating existing and future work (Management Competency 2) -- Managing the individual within the team (Management Competency 3) -- Reasoning/managing difficult situations (Management Competency 4) -- Overcoming barriers to positive manager behaviour -- Supporting managers to change their behaviour -- Is stress management just good management? -- The way forward. |
| Summary |
Preventing Stress in Organizations:How to Develop Positive Managersoffers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help managers prevent and reduce workplace stress in their staff. Provides information on the critical skills managers must develop in order to prevent stress in their staff, and the key ongoing behaviours that promote a healthy work environmentShows practitioners in occupational psychology, HR, Health and Safety and related professions how positive management can be integrated into an organization???s existing practices and processesServes as an essential guide for managers thems. |
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Job stress.
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Job stress -- Prevention.
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Executive ability.
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Management.
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Organization.
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Psychology, Industrial.
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Stress -- prevention & control |
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Organization and Administration |
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Psychology, Industrial |
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Stress dû au travail. |
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Aptitude pour la direction. |
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Gestion. |
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Organisation. |
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Psychologie du travail. |
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management. |
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Health and Fitness. |
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Psychology, Industrial |
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Organization |
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Executive ability |
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Job stress |
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Job stress -- Prevention |
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Management |
| Added Author |
Yarker, Joanna.
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Lewis, Rachel, 1973-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Donaldson-Feilder, Emma. Preventing stress in organizations. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 9780470665527 (DLC) 2010036011 (OCoLC)662153765 |
| ISBN |
9780470978122 (electronic bk.) |
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0470978120 (electronic bk.) |
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9780470978139 (electronic bk.) |
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0470978139 (electronic bk.) |
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9781119996095 (electronic bk.) |
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1119996090 (electronic bk.) |
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(cloth) |
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(pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
99943260187 |
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