Cary L. Cooper & James Campbell Quick 
International Handbook of Work and Health Psychology [EPUB ebook] 

About the Editors ix
List of Contributors xi
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq
Part I: The Context of Work and Health Today 7
Chapter 2 Health and Well-Being: The Role of the Psychological Contract 9
David Guest and Neil Conway
Chapter 3 The Social Context of Work Life: Implications for Burnout and Work Engagement 25
Michael P. Leiter and Naomi Stright
Chapter 4 The Effects of Job Strain on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease 49
Arie Shirom, Galit Armon, Shlomo Berliner, Itzhak Shapira and Samuel Melamed
Chapter 5 Sickness Presenteeism and Attendance Pressure Factors: Implications for Practice 77
Caroline Biron and Per Øystein Saksvik
Part II: Individual Differences and Health 97
Chapter 6 Individual Differences, Work Stress and Health 99
Norbert K. Semmer and Laurenz L. Meier
Chapter 7 Gender and Work Stress: Unique Stressors, Unique Responses 123
Faye K. Cocchiara and Myrtle P. Bell
Chapter 8 Work Experiences, Stress and Health among Managerial Women: Research and Practice 147
Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen
Part III: The Role of Workplace Factors on Health 171
Chapter 9 The Role of Job Control in Employee Health and Well-Being 173
Paul E. Spector
Chapter 10 Stress and Careers 197
Yehuda Baruch
Chapter 11 New Technologies and Stress 221
Kai-Christoph Hamborg and Siegfried Greif
Chapter 12 Flexibility at Work in Relation to Employee Health 251
T¨ores Theorell
Chapter 13 Acute Stress at Work 269
Rolf J. Kleber and Peter G. van der Velden
Part IV: Supporting Individuals at Work 293
Chapter 14 Management Development for Well-Being and Survival: Developing the Whole Person 295
Rosemary Maellaro and J. Lee Whittington
Chapter 15 Coaching in Organizations 329
Helen Williams and Stephen Palmer
Chapter 16 Women’s Coping: Communal Versus Individualistic Orientation 353
Pamela A. Geller, Stevan E. Hobfoll and Carla Dunahoo
Chapter 17 Employee Assistance Programs: A Research-Based Primer 383
Mark Attridge
Part V: Organizational Approaches to Health and Well-Being 409
Chapter 18 Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change and Stress 411
Manfred Kets de Vries, Laura Guill´en Ramo and Konstantin Korotov
Chapter 19 Building Interventions to Improve Staff Well-Being 427
Gordon Tinline and Ben Moss
Chapter 20 Stress and Effectiveness: An Approach for Changing Organizational Culture 445
Marc J. Schabracq and Iva Smit
Chapter 21 Epilogue 471
Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq
Index 477

Sir Cary L. Cooper CBE is Pro Vice Chancellor for External Relations and Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University. He is Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, President of RELATE, President of Institute of Welfare and was lead scientist on the UK government’s Foresight project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing.
James Campbell Quick is John and Judy Goolsby Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Lancaster University Management School, UK. He is Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Organizational Behavior, now publications. Jim has over 130 publications available in ten languages. Jim is married to the former Sheri Grimes Schember.
Marc J. Schabracq teaches courses on work and health psychology at the University of Amsterdam and is an independent organizational consultant in human aspects of production and change in both profit and non-profit organisations. He has produced more than twenty scholarly and professional books on psychology, as well as more than 100 articles and book chapters.