Product Description: In this book, the authors provide up-to-date thinking and research on the broad range of emotional experience in working environments with particular attention to the causes of emotional change, the consequences of emotional experience for individuals and their organisations, and the implications for effective strategies for managing individuals (including oneself) and organisations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines the use of Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs). It describes the nature, theory and practice of the EAPs and their use in combatting stress in the workplace.

Product Description: How to keep up to date with the current developments and issues in the study and practice of organizational behavior? That is the challenge for students, academics and practitioners. This series complements the standard tests of OB and the more comprehensive, historical review volumes, by offering concise, critical and stimulating accounts of the main issues and developments in topics of current and ongoing importance in OB...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Employees have a set of needs as part of the 'psychological contract' of employment. However, organizations operate for a reason and they too have agendas and needs. It is how the two come together that determines the capacity for good human relations and optimum productivity...read more

Product Description: Challenges Facing the Employment Relationship in Future Organizations addresses the issues of change within employee relationships resulting from the impact of factors such as:* international competitive pressures* technological change* changing individual expectations and behavioursThe new employment contract is analysed from inside and outside organizations and the issues are addressed from both a human resource management and work psychology perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A psychologist describes how the stress that managers experience on the job can affect their home life and offers advice for both the individual manager and the organization on how to minimize this problem

Product Description: Health is your greatest asset. This book shows you how to get the best from your body and your mind, and achieve the personal success in business that follows.

Describes a series of scary situations, including going upstairs alone, finding a ghost, wrestling a crocodile, being stuck in the top of a tree, and having an adult shout at you

Product Description: Research now shows us that long-term activation of the stress cycle can have a hazardous, even lethal, effect on the body, increasing the risk of obesity, heart disease, depression, cancer, and other illnesses. This new edition of an award-winning book presents cutting-edge research on the effects of stress...read more

Workplace health is now recognised as having major legal, financial and efficiency implications for organizations. Psychologists are increasingly called on as consultants or in house facilitators to help design work processes, assess and counsel individuals and advise on change management. The second edition of this handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date survey of the field with a focus on the applied aspects of work and health psychology. An unrivalled source of knowledge and references in the field, for students and academics, this edition also reflects the need to relate research to effective and realistic interventions in the workplace. * Editors are outstanding leaders in their fields * Focuses on linking research to practice * Over 50% new chapters. New topics include Coping, The Psychological Contract and Health, Assessment and Measurement of Stress and Well-Being, the Effects of Change, and chapters of Conflict and Communication (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book provides contemporary means to solve an age-old conundrum in management - do happy workers perform better? Decades of research and empirical evidence have been unable to establish a strong link between affective well-being, intrinsic job satisfaction and managers' performance...read more

Product Description: The Enterprise Culture of the 1980s helped transform economies of Western Europe, but left behind a legacy of stress, both for managers and shop floor workers. The cost to business is seen in absenteeism, reduced productivity, compensation claims, health insurance and direct medical costs, which in the US cost approximately $150 billion a year...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book seeks to find the distinctive marks of executive success. There are a number of aspects to the study. Top executives of major companies have been interviewed to establish information on their own qualities, background and career...read more

Product Description: Eighty per cent of mergers and acquisitions destroy shareholder value. When things go wrong, it usually turns out that the two organisations' cultures and working practices were just too different to gel in an effective new body. Who knows the most about organisational culture? Finance, the lawyers, or HR? This readable book shows how HR can contribute to successful mergers and acquisitions...read more