Product Description: In today's organizations, career success depends more on political skill-the ability to influence, motivate, and win support from others-than on almost any other characteristic. Political Skill at Work delivers the "how" to influence at work, not just the "what...read more

Product Description: A volume in Stress and Quality of Working Life Series Editors Ana Maria Rossi, International Stress Management Association, James Campbell (Jim) Quick, The University of Texas at Arlington and Pamela L. Perrewé, Florida State University This book offers twelve chapters organized into three major sections that address occupational stress and quality of working life...read more

Product Description: For decades, researchers have examined the job stressors and their outcomes for individuals and organizations. However, until now we know only little about the processes that reduce and reverse the effects of the stress process. This volume aims at filling this gap in the literature by focusing on processes related to recovery and unwinding from job stress...read more

Product Description: This volume offers papers that examine several key issues in occupational stress. It looks at the role of stress in physiological reactions and health consequences, examines the role of control and cynicism in occupational stress, and calls for new methodologies.

Product Description: This book was developed for the 2005 International Stress Management Association Conference in Brazil. The original book was recently published in Portuguese, but because of the popularity of the topics and the world-renowned stress scholars who contributed chapters, we are very pleased to have the opportunity to publish this work in English...read more

Product Description: Presents an examination of occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. This book presents a critical assessment of issues in occupational stress and well being.

Product Description: From the contents: The healthy work organization model: expanding the viewof individual health (R.J. Vandenberg et al.). - Individual and organizational health (L. Tetrick). - Crossover of stress and strain in thefamily and workplace (M...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The series Occupational Stress and Well-Being spans a number of traditional disciplines which include psychology, medicine, sociology, anthropology, management and business. It represents a serious attempt to bring these disciplines together to advance the field and study of occupational stress...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)