(H/B) NEW DIRECTIONS IN ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE

Παρουσίαση

This research shows the dynamic relationship between work, health and satisfaction. New Directions in Organizational Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, comprehensively covers new developments in the field of occupational health psychology and provides insight into the many challenges that will change the nature of occupational health psychology. The editors have gathered 40 experts from all over the developed world to discuss issues relevant to human resource and talent management, and specifically to employment related physical and psychological health issues.
Especially because it comes at a time of economic turbulence that will create work stress and strain, organizations, researchers and practitioners will find this book valuable. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction: New Directions in organizational psychology and behavioral medicine, Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Cary Cooper;
Part I: New Challenges for Occupational Health Psychology: A short history of occupational health psychology: a biographical approach, Amy Christie and Julian Barling;
Well-being at work, a new way of doing things? A journey through yesterday, today and tomorrow, Philip C. Gibbs and Simon B. Burnett;
The changing world of work and occupational health, Maria Armaou and Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou;
Stress medicine: from bench to bedside, Dirk H. Hellhammer and Juliane Hellhammer.
Part II: Work and Dispositional Occupational Sources of Health: Work hours, work intensity and work addiction: risks and rewards, Ronald J. Burke and Lisa Fiksenbaum;
Gender differences in burnout: a literature review, Ayala Malach-Pines and Sigalit Ronen;
American adolescents in the workplace; exploration of health-related psychosocial issues, Donald E. Greydanus, Helen D. Pratt and Dilip R. Patel;
Emotional intelligence as a personality trait, Konstantinos V. Petrides;
Self-efficacy as a central psychological capacity within the construct of positive organizational behavior: its impact on work, Magdalini Koutsoumari and Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou;
Professional efficacy and social support in nurses during the SARS crisis in Canada and China, Esther R. Greenglass, Zdravko Marjanovic, Lisa Fiksenbaum, Sue Coffey, Kan Shi and Xue Feng Chen.
Part III: Health, Management and Organizational Effectiveness: An integrative framework of supervisor responses to workgroup conflict, Kirsten Way, Nerina L. Jimmieson, and Prashant Bordia;
Determinants of work satisfaction, and physical and psychological health in German managers, Elizabeth Austin, Bruce Kirkcaldy and Terence Martin;
Employee health and presenteeism: the challenge for human resources management, Robert A. Roe and Bas van Diepen;
Non-standard work schedules and retention management, Robert R. Sinclair and Kristin E. Charles.
Part IV: Job Insecurity, Unemployment and Mental Health: Health effects of unemployment and job insecurity, Gisela Mohr and Kathleen Otto;
Job insecurity: implications for occupational health and safety, Tahira M. Probst;
Mental health and unemployment: the coping perspective, Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Marina Dalla.
Part V: Specific Issues of Occupational Health Psychology: Brain versus nature: how the internet affects physical activity, Panagiotis Perros and Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou;
Health professionals and community stigma toward people who engage in substance abuse, Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Marina Dalla;
Immigration, acculturation and responses to perceived employment discrimination: a study of Albanian and Bulgarian immigrants in Greece, Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Marina Dalla;
Index.