Title Preventing stress in organizations : how to develop positive managers / Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Joanna Yarker, and Rachel Lewis

Published Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 269 pages) : illustrations Contents Front Matter -- Introduction -- Why Managing Stress is Important: The Business and Legal Reasons -- How to Manage Work-Related Stress -- Developing a Framework to Promote Positive Manager Behaviour -- Respectful and Responsible: Managing Emotions and Having Integrity (Management Competency 1) -- Managing and Communicating Existing and Future Work (Management Competency 2) -- Managing the Individual within the Team (Management Competency 3) -- Reasoning/Managing Difficult Situations (Management Competency 4) -- Overcoming Barriers to Positive Manager Behaviour -- Supporting Managers to Change their Behaviour -- Is Stress Management Just Good Management? -- The Way Forward -- Appendix -- Index Introduction -- Why managing stress is important : the business, legal, and moral reasons -- How to manage work-related stress -- Developing a framework to promote positive manager behaviour -- Respectful and responsible : managing emotions and having integrity (Management Competency 1) -- Managing and communicating existing and future work (Management Competency 2) -- Managing the individual within the team (Management Competency 3) -- Reasoning/managing difficult situations (Management Competency 4) -- Overcoming barriers to positive manager behaviour -- Supporting managers to change their behaviour -- Is stress management just good management? -- The way forward Summary Preventing Stress in Organizations:How to Develop Positive Managersoffers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help managers prevent and reduce workplace stress in their staff. Provides information on the critical skills managers must develop in order to prevent stress in their staff, and the key ongoing behaviours that promote a healthy work environmentShows practitioners in occupational psychology, HR, Health and Safety and related professions how positive management can be integrated into an organization???s existing practices and processesServes as an essential guide for managers thems Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Job stress. Job stress -- Prevention Executive ability. Management. Organization. Psychology, Industrial. Stress -- prevention & control Organization and Administration Psychology, Industrial management. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior. Health and Fitness. Psychology, Industrial Organization Executive ability Job stress Job stress -- Prevention Management Form Electronic book Author Yarker, Joanna. Lewis, Rachel, 1973- ISBN 9780470978122 0470978120 9780470978139 0470978139 9781119996095 1119996090

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