Chen / Cooper Wellbeing

A Complete Reference Guide, Volume III, Work and Wellbeing
1., Volume III
ISBN: 978-1-118-71620-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 536 Seiten, E-Book

Part of the six-volume reference set Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, this volume is a comprehensive look at wellbeing in the workplace at organizational, managerial, and individual levels.
* Discusses the implications of theory and practice in the field of workplace wellbeing
* Incorporates not only coverage of workplace stress in relation to wellbeing, but also aspects of positive psychology
* Explores the role of governments in promoting work place well being
* Part of the six-volume set Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, which brings together leading research on wellbeing from across the social sciences
* Topics include work-life balance; coping strategies and characters of individuals; characteristics of workplaces and organizational strategies that are conducive to wellbeing; and many more

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chen, Peter Y.

Cooper, Cary L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors ix
Contributors xi
Full Contents of Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guidexiii
Introduction to Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guidexxvii
Part 1 Introduction 1
1 Introduction: From Stress to Happiness 3
Peter Y. Chen and Cary L. Cooper
2 Conceptualizing and Measuring Wellbeing at Work 9
Cynthia D. Fisher
Part 2 Resources, Coping, and Control 35
3 Job DemandswResources Theory 37
Arnold B. Bakker and Evangelia Demerouti
4 Positive Psychology and Coping: Towards a Better Understandingof the Relationship 65
Philip Dewe
5 The Role of Workplace Control in Positive Health and Wellbeing91
Erin M. Eatough and Paul E. Spector
Part 3 Happy Workers and Happy Organizations 111
6 The Happy Worker: Revisiting the "Happy-ProductiveWorker" Thesis 113
Peter Hosie and Nada ElRakhawy
7 Organizational Characteristics of Happy Organizations139
Bret L. Simmons
Part 4 Character and Wellbeing 157
8 Character and Wellbeing 159
Thomas A. Wright and Tyler Lauer
9 Stress, Health, and Wellbeing in Practice: WorkplaceLeadership and Leveraging Stress for Positive Outcomes 175
James Campbell Quick, Joel Bennett, and M. BlakeHargrove
Part 5 Organizational Strategies to Promote Wellbeing205
10 Cancer, Work, and the Quality of Working Life: A NarrativeReview 207
Tom Cox, Sara MacLennan, and James N'Dow
11 Lead Well, Be Well: Leadership Behaviors Influence EmployeeWellbeing 235
Jennifer Robertson and Julian Barling
12 Organizational Coping Strategies and Wellbeing 253
Gordon Tinline and Matthew Smeed
13 Workplace Mistreatment: Recent Developments in Theory,Research, and Interventions 263
Michael Hanrahan and Michael P. Leiter
14 The Sustainable Workforce: Organizational Strategies forPromoting Work-Life Balance and Wellbeing 295
Ellen Ernst Kossek, Monique Valcour, and Pamela Lirio
15 Development of a Theoretically Grounded Model of SexualHarassment Awareness Training Effectiveness 319
Lisa M. Kath and Vicki J. Magley
16 The Working Wounded: Stigma and Return to Work 339
Lori Francis, James E. Cameron, E. Kevin Kelloway, Victor M.Catano, Arla L. Day, and C. Gail Hepburn
17 Job Stress in University Academics: Evidence from anAustralian National Study 357
Anthony H. Winefield
Part 6 From Research to National Policy 379
18 Longitudinal Research in Occupational Stress: A Review ofMethodological Issues 381
Robert C. Brusso, Konstantin P. Cigularov, and Rachel C.Callan
19 Measuring Wellbeing in Modern Societies 409
Paul Allin
Index 465

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Y. Chen is Professor of Management at theUniversity of South Australia Business School.
Cary L. Cooper is Distinguished Professor ofOrganizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University.