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
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Contents of this Volume
About the Editors ix
Contributors xi
Full Contents of Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide xiii
Introduction to Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide xxvii
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 Demandsw Resources Theory 37
Arnold B. Bakker and Evangelia Demerouti
4 Positive Psychology and Coping: Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship 65
Philip Dewe
5 The Role of Workplace Control in Positive Health and Wellbeing 91
Erin M. Eatough and Paul E. Spector
Part 3 Happy Workers and Happy Organizations 111
6 The Happy Worker: Revisiting the ‘‘Happy–Productive Worker’’ Thesis 113
Peter Hosie and Nada El Rakhawy
7 Organizational Characteristics of Happy Organizations 139
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: Workplace Leadership and Leveraging Stress for Positive Outcomes 175
James Campbell Quick, Joel Bennett, and M. Blake Hargrove
Part 5 Organizational Strategies to Promote Wellbeing 205
10 Cancer, Work, and the Quality of Working Life: A Narrative Review 207
Tom Cox, Sara Mac Lennan, and James N’Dow
11 Lead Well, Be Well: Leadership Behaviors Influence Employee Wellbeing 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 for Promoting Work–Life Balance and Wellbeing 295
Ellen Ernst Kossek, Monique Valcour, and Pamela Lirio
15 Development of a Theoretically Grounded Model of Sexual Harassment 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 an Australian National Study 357
Anthony H. Winefield
Part 6 From Research to National Policy 379
18 Longitudinal Research in Occupational Stress: A Review of Methodological Issues 381
Robert C. Brusso, Konstantin P. Cigularov, and Rachel C. Callan
19 Measuring Wellbeing in Modern Societies 409
Paul Allin
Index 465
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Peter Y. Chen is Professor of Management at the University of South Australia Business School.
Cary L. Cooper is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University.