Summary
Overview
Key Readings
The field of work and well-being is growing at a phenomenal rate, as obesity, mental health, heart disease, and alcohol consumption become increasingly important for organizations in the public and private sector.
This collection covers the sources and costs of workplace stress; major theories of organizational stress and well-being; and intervention studies in the field.
Within the major work, an international advisory board identifies the best original science, as well as the relevant theories and recent intervention studies that reflect best practice in terms of enhancing well-being at work.
Editor's Introduction: Organizational Health and Wellbeing
Abrief history over the last few decades highlights how ‘work’ has changed, and why we are where we are today (Cooper, 2009). The 1980s were the start of the ‘enterprise culture’, where in the developed world, countries began to Americanize their workplaces, with privatizations of the public sector, many more cross-national mergers and acquisitions and the beginnings of the process of changing the nature of the psychological contract between employee and employer, where jobs were no longer for life. In the 1990s, and during most of the first decade of the 2000s, we saw the ‘short term contract’ culture, with its’ intrinsic job insecurity, outsourcing of many of organizational functions, downsizing, delayering, an endemic long-hours working culture and more ...
Table of Contents
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Editorial Advisory Board
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Volume I
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Theories of Organizational Health and Wellbeing
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1. Reviewing the Effort–Reward Imbalance Model: Drawing Up the Balance of 45 Empirical Studies
Natasja van Vegchel | Jan Jonge | Hans Bosma | Wilmar Schaufeli
2005
Social Science & Medicine
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Margot Van der Doef | Stan Maes
1999
Work & Stress
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3. The Demands–Control Model of Job Strain: A More Specific Test
Toby Wall | Paul Jackson | Sean Mullarkey | Sharon Parker
1996
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
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4. Irreconcilable Differences? Strategic Human Resource Management and Employee Well-being
Michelle Brown | Isabel Metz | Christina Cregan | Carol Kulik
2009
Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
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Job Security and Job Satisfaction
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5. Job Satisfaction and Psychological Well-being as Nonadditive Predictors of Workplace Turnover
Thomas Wright | Douglas Bonett
2007
Journal of Management
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Hans Witte
1999
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
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7. Positive Social Interactions and the Human Body at Work: Linking Organizations and Physiology
Emily Heaphy | Jane Dutton
2008
The Academy of Management Review
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8. The Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Health: A Meta-analysis
E. Faragher | M. Cass | C. Cooper
2005
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Organizational Health Outcomes – Job Performance, Sickness Absence, Accidents
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9. Is Job Strain a Major Source of Cardiovascular Disease Risk?1
Karen Belkic | Paul Landsbergis | Peter Schnall | Dean Baker
2004
Journal of Work, Environment & Health
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10. Psychosocial Factors and Safety Behaviour as Predictors of Accidental Work Injuries in Farming
David Glasscock | Kurt Rasmussen | Ole Carstensen | Ole Hansen
2006
Ole Carstensen and Ole N. Hansen Work & Stress
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11. The Impact of Psychological Distress on Absence from Work
Gillian Hardy | David Woods | Toby Wall
2003
Journal of Applied Psychology
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12. Emotional Exhaustion as a Predictor of Job Performance and Voluntary Turnover
Thomas Wright | Russell Cropanzano
1998
Journal of Applied Psychology
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13. Job Strain and Cardiovascular Disease
Peter Schnall | Paul Landsbergis | Dean Baker
1994
Annual Review of Public Health
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C. Bambra | M. Gibson | A. Sowden | K. Wright | M. Whitehead | M. Petticrew
2009
Preventive Medicine
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15. Advances in Occupational Health: From a Stressful Beginning to a Positive Future
Marilyn Macik-Frey | James Quick | Debra Nelson
2007
Journal of Management
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16. Promotion of Occupational and Public Health: The European Experience and Challenge
Cary Cooper | Lennart Levi
2006
IJE & HF
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Volume II
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Burnout
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17. Job Burnout
Christina Maslach | Wilmar Schaufeli | Michael Leiter
2001
Annual Review of Psychology
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18. Burnout and Work Engagement: Independent Factors or Opposite Poles?
Vicente González-Romá | Wilmar Schaufeli | Arnold Bakker | Susana Lloret
2006
Journal of Vocational Behavior
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Antonio Lasalvia | Chiara Bonetto | Mariaelena Bertani | Sarah Bissoli | Doriana Cristofalo | Giovanna Marrella | Enrico Ceccato | Carla Cremonese | Moreno Rossi | Lorenza Lazzarotto | Vanna Marangon | Idana Morandin | Maria Zucchetto | Michele Tansella | Mirella Ruggeri
2009
The British Journal of Psychiatry
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20. Job Demands Job Resources, and Their Relationship with Burnout and Engagement: A Multi-sample Study
Wilmar Schaufeli | Arnold Bakker
2004
Journal of Organizational Behavior
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Occupational Differences
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Mark Bellis | Tom Hennell | Clare Lushey | Karen Hughes | Karen Tocque | John Ashton
2007
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
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22. Prevalence and Causes of Self-reported Work-related Stress in Head Teachers
Samantha Phillips | Dil Sen | Roseanne McNamee
2007
Occupational Medicine
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23. Mental Health and Quality of Life among Doctors, Nurses and Other Hospital Staff
Jian-An Su | Hsu-Huei Weng | Hin-Yeung Tsang | Jhen-Long Wu
2009
Stress and Health
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24. Power Motivation, Illness, Coping Strategies and Psychological Stress in Police Trainees
Janice Langan-Fox | Tanya Deery | Sara van Vliet
1997
Work & Stress
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25. Relationship between Quality of Life and Occupational Stress among Teachers
X. Yang | C. Ge | B. Hu | T. Chi | L. Wang
2009
Public Health
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Job Characteristics – Control, Hours, Demands and Violence
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26. Low Job Control and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Whitehall II (Prospective Cohort) Study
Hans Bosma | Michael Marmot | Harry Hemingway | Amanda Nicholson | Eric Brunner | Stephen Stansfeld
1997
British Medical Journal
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27. Well-being and Occupational Health in the 21st Century Workplace
Kate Sparks | Brian Faragher | Cary Cooper
2001
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
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A. Dembe | J. Erickson | R. Delbos | S. Banks
2005
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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29. Predictors and Outcomes of Workplace Violence and Aggression
Manon LeBlanc | E. Kelloway
2002
Journal of Applied Psychology
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30. A Meta-Analysis of Work Demand Stressors and Job Performance: Examining Main and Moderating Effects
Simona Gilboa | Arie Shirom | Yitzhak Fried | Cary Cooper
2008
Personnel Psychology
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Mark Wilson | David DeJoy | Robert Vandenberg | Hettie Richardson | Allison McGrath
2004
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
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Volume III
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Leader Behaviour and Health
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Jane Mullen | E. Kelloway
2009
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
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Karina Nielsen | Raymond Randall | Joanna Yarker | Sten-Olof Brenner
2008
Work & Strees
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34. Managerial Leadership and Ischaemic Heart Disease among Employees: The Swedish WOLF Study
A. Nyberg | L. Alfredsson | T. Theorell | H. Westerlund | J. Vahtera | M. Kivimäki
2009
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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N. Wager | G. Fieldman | T. Hussey
2003
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Work-Life Balance
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36. A Meta-analytic Review of Work–Family Conflict and Its Antecedents
Kristin Byron
2005
Journal of Vocational Behavior
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Paul Spector | Tammy Allen | Steven Poelmans | Laurent Lapierre | Cary Cooper | Michael O'Driscoll | Juan Sanchez | Nureya Abarca | Matilda Alexandrova | Barbara Beham | Paula Brough | Pablo Ferreiro | Guillermo Fraile | Chang-Qin Lu | Luo Lu | Ivonne Moreno-Velázquez | Milan Pagon | Horea Pitariu | Volodymyr Salamatov | Satoru Shima | Alejandra Simoni | Oi Siu | Maria Widerszal-Bazyl
2007
Personnel Psychology
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Luo Lu | Cary Cooper | Shu-Fang Kao | Ting-Ting Chang | Tammy Allen | Laurent Lapierre | Michael O'Driscoll | Steven Poelmans | Juan Sanchez | Paul Spector
2010
Human Resource Management
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39. When Work and Family Are Allies: A Theory of Work-Family Enrichment
Jeffrey Greenhaus | Gary Powell
2006
The Academy of Management Review
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Health Promotion/Wellness Programmes
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Birgit Aust | Antje Ducki
2004
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
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41. Organizational Wellness Programs: A Meta-Analysis
Kizzy Parks | Lisa Steelman
2008
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
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Mercedes Carnethon | Laurie Whitsel | Barry Franklin | Penny Kris-Etherton | Richard Milani | Charlotte Pratt | Gregory Wagner
2009
Circulation
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Workplace Interventions
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43. Healthy Mind; Healthy Organization – A Proactive Approach to Occupational Stress1
C. Cooper | S. Cartwright
1994
Human Relations
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44. Effects of Occupational Stress Management Intervention Programs: A Meta-Analysis
Katherine Richardson | Hannah Rothstein
2008
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
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45. Assessing the Impact of Healthy Work Organization Intervention
David DeJoy | Mark Wilson | Robert Vandenberg | Allison McGrath-Higgins | C. Griffin-Blake
2010
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
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Matt Egan | Clare Bambra | Sian Thomas | Mark Petticrew | Margaret Whitehead | Hilary Thomson
2007
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
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47. Single Session Debriefing after Psychological Trauma: A Meta-Analysis
Arnold van Emmerik | Jan Kamphuis | Alexander Hulsbosch | Paul Emmelkamp
2002
The Lancet
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Happiness
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Russell Cropanzano | Thomas Wright
2001
Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice & Research
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49. Happiness, Health, or Relationships? Managerial Practices and Employee Well-being Tradeoffs
Adam Grant | Marlys Christianson | Richard Price
2007
Academy of Management Perspectives
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50. Healthy, Happy, Productive Work: A Leadership Challenge
James Quick | Jonathan Quick
2004
Quick and Jonathan D. Quick Organizational Dynamics
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