Preventing Stress in Organizations

How to Develop Positive Managers

Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Rachel Lewis, Joanna Yarker

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781119996095
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Industrie- & Organisationspsychologie

Preventing Stress in Organizations: How to Develop Positive Managers offers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help managers prevent and reduce workplace stress in their staff.

• Winner of the 2013 BPS Book Award - Practitioner Text category
• 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 environment
• Shows practitioners in occupational psychology, HR, Health and Safety and related professions how positive management can be integrated into an organization's existing practices and processes
• Serves as an essential guide for managers themselves on how to incorporate proven stress management skills into their everyday interactions with team members
• Balances rigorous research grounding with real-world vignettes, case studies and exercises

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Why managing stress is important: The business and legal reasons
• Chapter 3: How to manage work-related stress
• Chapter 4: Developing a framework to promote positive manager behaviour
• Chapter 5: Respectful and responsible: Managing emotions and having integrity (management competency 1)
• Chapter 6: Managing and communicating existing and future work (management competency 2)
• Chapter 7: Managing the individual within the team (management competency 3)
• Chapter 8: Reasoning/managing difficult situations (management competency 4)
• Chapter 9: Overcoming barriers to positive manager behaviour
• Chapter 10: Supporting managers to change their behaviour
• Chapter 11: Is stress management just good management?
• Chapter 12: The way forward
• Appendix
• Index