During the past two decades, the nature of work has changed dramatically, as more and more organizations downsize, outsource and move toward short-term contracts, part-time working and teleworking. The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen accordingly in terms of increased sickness absence, ...
Each collection of articles that makes up a volume of "Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions" paints a picture of contemporary research on this topic. In this volume, we have seven contributions from scholars in North America, Europe, and Asia, and these papers collectively address acquisition strategy and acquisition integration, successful deals ...
Organizations today are facing heightened challenges in their efforts to perform effectively. These challenges are reflected in the failure of many long-standing organizations and the shortened tenure of senior level executives. There is increasing agreement that the unique competitive advantage organizations have today lies in their people, their ...
Developments in IT and communication technology, coupled with the global 24 hour market, have led to boundaries between work and personal life becoming ever more blurred, while work/life policies and practice struggle to keep up. This book aims to challenge traditional thinking on work life balance, and to explore different ways of promoting ...
This Companion volume looks at the changing conditions of work and the challenges these pose for workers. Containing fourteen chapters by a well-known team of contributors from North America and Europe, the text provides a powerful combination of up-to-date research and practice. The issues covered are highly topical, including work-family ...
The health of managers, executives, and business leaders has a massive impact on the performance and prospects of modern organizations. If health problems are not tackled, people become less productive, less effective, and more destructive. It is clear that business leaders and human resource professionals cannot afford to ignore the impact of ...
'Written primarily for the employee, this book is a gold mine of easily assimilated information and ideas which should also be of value to anyone working in human resources' - Personnel Today 'Much of the literature on stress tends to be either academic or research-based, or otherwise focuses on the more practical aspects of stress management. ...
Organizational psychology is concerned with the world of work and training, specifically the functioning of organizations and how people and groups behave. PRovides self-contained, state-of-the-art reviews of topics of current concern and significant new developments in the field. Tenth in a series of annual volumes which provide authoritative ...
An extensively updated and extended new edition of this highly successful book on how cancer affects every individual within a family and has a major impact on the family structure itself. It covers a very broad range of topics from sexual problems to how children view cancer (in their parents, their siblings and in themselves). Cancer remains one ...
This book brings together the foremost industrial and organizational psychologists and leading practitioners to explore contemporary themes confronting organizations today. Examining the relationship between theory and practice, they show how one enriches the other. For each chapter, the academic author focuses on theory and research, and the ...
Working in a stressful environment not only increases the risk of physical illness or distress, but also increases the likelihood of workplace accidents. While legislation provides some guidelines for risk assessment of physical hazards, there remains limited guidance on the risks of psychosocial hazards, such as occupational stress. This book ...
The Organization in Crisis brings together a team of leading international researchers and practitioners to study the implementation and impact of organizational changes such as downsizing, restructuring and privatization. The text provides a unique combination of research, theory and practice, and not only examines key issues associated with ...
Changing the workplace to help prevent stress is much more cost effective in the long term than treating employees for the effects of stress. But to date, there has been little guidance for employers who wish to implement such programmes. This text has gathered together examples of best practice in the workplace across a range of EU countries and ...
Shattering the Glass Ceiling is a positive and constructive source of reference directed at women in management, or about to go into management. It aims to: * Highlight the major problems and pressures of being a woman in business and management. * Describe the individual and organizational consequences. * Relate research findings to the needs of ...
Mergers, acquisitions, and alliances continue to be almost an everyday feature of the contemporary business scene, yet at least half prove to be unsuccessful. The authors show the contribution that psychology can make to our understanding of the merger phenomena - how it affects organizational performance, and how it affects the managers and ...
The entrance of women into managerial positions in significant numbers brings work and family issues to center stage, shifting the spotlight from issues of entry and equality of access to the consideration of the work-family conflicts and the difficulties posed on female managers.Looking at new approaches to enhance the work-family interface ...
In a health care climate where patients are ever more demanding and resources increasingly difficult to access, it is a truism that stress is an inevitable part of the profession of the medical practitioner. Stressed doctors become ill and dissatisfied, and in consequence patients may also suffer. Eliminating a source of stress is acknowledged as ...
This is the third book in the series "Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions", comprised of leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, who explore the economic, financial, strategic or organizational behaviour aspects of M & A's. Marie Kavanagh and Neal Ashkanasy explore how management approaches to mergers and acquisitions ...
This Companion volume looks at the changing conditions of work and the challenges these pose for workers. Containing fourteen chapters by a well-known team of contributors from North America and Europe, the text provides a powerful combination of up-to-date research and practice. The issues covered are highly topical, including work-family ...
A series of three books which are themed collections of reprinted articles from the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (IRIOP) from 1997-2001. Each volume provides collections around a topic area, with new introductions written by the editors for each volume. Written by leading scholars with international reputations ...
Contracts in employment are of two kinds: the formal, written contract and the equally important, informal and unwritten psychological contract - how people think they should be treated. This text explores issues relating to these contracts and serves as a handbook for practicing managers.
This book looks at the requirements for effective corporate leadership in the new world of work. It identifies the key challenges and opportunities facing corporate leaders today. It looks at the requirements for effective corporate leadership at a time when the world of work is changing dramatically. It proposes that the leaders of tomorrow must ...
In today's changing business environment, the financial health of an organization is increasingly dependent on the extent to which it and its members are able to transform and adapt to these changing internal and external circumstances more effectively than their competitors. Health has been identified as a key driver of socio-economic progress ...
This book is a new comprehensive and thought-provoking resource that examines stress in organizational contexts. It reviews the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and ...
"Stress: A Brief History" is a lively, accessible, and detailed examination of the origins of the field of stress research. This is the first concise, accessible, academically grounded book on the origins of the concept of stress. It explores different theories and models of stress such as the psychosomatic approach, homeostasis, and general ...
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