Donaldson-Feilder / Lewis / Yarker Preventing Stress in Organizations

How to Develop Positive Managers
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-470-97813-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Preventing Stress in Organizations:How to DevelopPositive Managersoffers an innovative, evidence-based approachto help managers prevent and reduce workplace stress in theirstaff.
* Winner of the 2013 BPS Book Award - Practitioner Textcategory
* Provides information on the critical skills managers mustdevelop in order to prevent stress in their staff, and the keyongoing behaviours that promote a healthy work environment
* Shows practitioners in occupational psychology, HR, Health andSafety and related professions how positive management can beintegrated into an organizationâEUR(TM)s existingpractices and processes
* Serves as an essential guide for managers themselves on how toincorporate proven stress management skills into their everydayinteractions with team members
* Balances rigorous research grounding with real-world vignettes,case studies and exercises

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donaldson-Feilder, Emma

Lewis, Rachel

Yarker, Joanna

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 1
What is Stress? 2
What Stress is Not: Common Misperceptions 3
Common Causes of Stress 4
Work-Related Stress and the Line Manager 5
Summary 9
References 9
2 Why managing stress is important: The business and legalreasons 11
The Business Case 11
The Costs of Work-Related Stress 12
Calculating the Cost of Stress to Your Business 19
What Should We Be Doing to Monitor these Costs? 23
The Legal Case 24
Legal Cases of Work-Related Stress 25
What Should We Be Doing to Comply with Legislation? 28
Summary 29
References 29
3 How to manage work-related stress 31
Prevention 32
Training and Development 35
Support 37
Organizational, Manager and Team, and Individual LevelInterventions 38
What Should Our Organization Be Doing? 41
Where Does the Line Manager Fit In? 42
Summary 44
Reference 44
4 Developing a framework to promote positive managerbehaviour 45
Rationale: The Need For a Stress Management Approach Focusing onPositive Manager Behaviour 46
Why We Took a Competency-Based Approach 49
The Research Underlying the Positive Manager Behaviour Frameworkand Approach 51
The Positive Manager Behaviour Framework 55
Evidence to Support a Positive Manager
Behaviour Approach 56
Useful Resources 64
References 65
5 Respectful and responsible: Managing emotions and havingintegrity (management competency 1) 67
Integrity 68
Managing Emotions 75
Considerate Approach 81
Summary 85
References 87
6 Managing and communicating existing and future work(management competency 2) 89
Proactive Work Management 90
Problem Solving 101
Participative/Empowering 106
Summary 119
References 121
7 Managing the individual within the team (managementcompetency 3) 123
Personally Accessible 124
Sociable 132
Empathetic Engagement 137
Summary 144
References 145
8 Reasoning/managing difficult situations (managementcompetency 4) 147
Managing Conflict 148
Use of Organizational Resources 157
Taking Responsibility for Resolving Issues 164
Summary 168
References 169
9 Overcoming barriers to positive manager behaviour171
Personal Level Barriers 172
Individual Work or Job Level Barriers 176
Team and Relationship Level Barriers 182
Organizational and Wider Level Barriers 186
Reference 189
10 Supporting managers to change their behaviour 191
Behaviour Change Is Possible 192
Theories of Behaviour Change 193
Implementing Behaviour Change Interventions 195
References 207
11 Is stress management just good management? 209
Comparing Positive Manager Behaviour with GeneralManagement/Leadership Competency Frameworks 211
Implications for Practice 214
How to Do Your Own Mapping 215
How to Identify Missing Positive Manager Behaviour Elements224
How to Integrate Missing Positive Manager Behaviour Elements225
Valuing People Management Skills 227
References 230
12 The way forward 231
Where are You Now? 231
Starting Out - Understanding Positive Manager Behaviourand How It Might Be Useful 233
Deciding How to Use Positive Manager Behaviour 234
Gaining Buy-In 240
Applying Positive Manager Behaviour 244
Sustainable Impact 250
References 253
Appendix 255
Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Donaldson-Feilder is a Director of Affinity Health atWork and a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. In addition to herroles as researcher and practitioner, working to improve employeewell-being and engagement, she is the author of numerouspublications, a regular conference presenter, and a mediacommentator on issues relating to health at work.
Rachel Lewis is a Director of Affinity Health at Work, aChartered Occupational Psychologist and a lecturer in OccupationalPsychology at Kingston Business School. She combines her academiccareer with regular conference speaking, consultancy and training,focusing on the links between leadership, management and employeewell-being.
Joanna Yarker is a Director of Affinity Health at Workand a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. She has previously heldposts at Goldsmiths, University of London and the University ofNottingham. She writes regularly for academic and trade journals,and offers guidance and training to public and private sectororganizations focused on improving workplace health.