Weinberg / Cooper Stress in Turbulent Times

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-30617-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 157 Seiten

Reihe: Business and Management (R0)

Stress isundoubtedly one of the major work-related illness and is even more likely in times of economic uncertainty and downturn. Theauthors assess the psychological challenges created by instability and uncertainty and provide a survival toolkit that shows the reader how to combat stress in their own lives.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinberg, A.

Cooper, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Fall Of Capitalism? Why Are These Times So Stressful? The Nature Of Stress In Turbulent Times What Do The Sources Of Pressure Mean To Us? Dealing With Stress In The Workplace: The Options For Organizations And Their Employees Coping With Turbulent Times: A Survival Kit For The Individual

Über Autor(innen)

ASHLEY WEINBERGis a Chartered Psychologist with 20 years' experience consulting, researching, teaching, and writing courses on the topics of stress and mental health in the workplace. He is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Salford, UK, where he led the establishment of the Psychology Department. He is a British Psychological Society media contact and is a regular contributor to television and radio broadcasts, as well as newspaper articles on psychological well-being and organizational behavior. Dr Weinberg runs workshops for diverse audiences ranging from psychiatrists to dentists and journalists to business managers and he has conducted studies on national politicians, social workers, healthcare staff and university employees. He is editor of The Psychology of Politicians (2012), and author of Organizational Stress Management: A strategic approach (with Val
Sutherland and Cary Cooper in 2010) and Surviving the Workplace – A Guide to Emotional Well-being (with Cary Cooper in 2007).


CARY COOPERis Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University, UK. He was Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Editor of the journal Stress and Health and President of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is President of RELATE and Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences (a body comprising 43 learned societies in the social sciences with over 86,000 social scientists). Caryalso serves on the Global Agenda Council on Health and Wellbeing of the World Economic Forum and has been made an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society and awarded the Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to higher education. He has a number of honorary doctorates from universities and received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians. Professor Cooper was honoured with a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2001.