International Handbook of Work and Health Psychology (eBook)

Sir Cary L. Cooper CBE is Pro Vice Chancellor for External Relations and Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University. He is Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, President of RELATE, President of Institute of Welfare and was lead scientist on the UK government's Foresight project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing. James Campbell Quick is John and Judy Goolsby Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Lancaster University Management School, UK. He is Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Organizational Behavior, now publications. Jim has over 130 publications available in ten languages. Jim is married to the former Sheri Grimes Schember. Marc J. Schabracq teaches courses on work and health psychology at the University of Amsterdam and is an independent organizational consultant in human aspects of production and change in both profit and non-profit organisations. He has produced more than twenty scholarly and professional books on psychology, as well as more than 100 articles and book chapters.

About the Editors ix

List of Contributors xi

Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq

Part I: The Context ofWork and Health Today 7

Chapter 2 Health andWell-Being: The Role of the Psychological Contract 9
David Guest and Neil Conway

Chapter 3 The Social Context of Work Life: Implications for Burnout and Work Engagement 25
Michael P. Leiter and Naomi Stright

Chapter 4 The Effects of Job Strain on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease 49
Arie Shirom, Galit Armon, Shlomo Berliner, Itzhak Shapira and Samuel Melamed

Chapter 5 Sickness Presenteeism and Attendance Pressure Factors: Implications for Practice 77
Caroline Biron and Per Øystein Saksvik

Part II: Individual Differences and Health 97

Chapter 6 Individual Differences, Work Stress and Health 99
Norbert K. Semmer and Laurenz L. Meier

Chapter 7 Gender and Work Stress: Unique Stressors, Unique Responses 123
Faye K. Cocchiara and Myrtle P. Bell

Chapter 8 Work Experiences, Stress and Health among Managerial Women: Research and Practice 147
Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen

Part III: The Role ofWorkplace Factors on Health 171

Chapter 9 The Role of Job Control in Employee Health and Well-Being 173
Paul E. Spector

Chapter 10 Stress and Careers 197
Yehuda Baruch

Chapter 11 New Technologies and Stress 221
Kai-Christoph Hamborg and Siegfried Greif

Chapter 12 Flexibility at Work in Relation to Employee Health 251
T¨ores Theorell

Chapter 13 Acute Stress at Work 269
Rolf J. Kleber and Peter G. van der Velden

Part IV: Supporting Individuals atWork 293

Chapter 14 Management Development for Well-Being and Survival: Developing the Whole Person 295
Rosemary Maellaro and J. Lee Whittington

Chapter 15 Coaching in Organizations 329
Helen Williams and Stephen Palmer

Chapter 16 Women's Coping: Communal Versus Individualistic Orientation 353
Pamela A. Geller, Stevan E. Hobfoll and Carla Dunahoo

Chapter 17 Employee Assistance Programs: A Research-Based Primer 383
Mark Attridge

Part V: Organizational Approaches to Health andWell-Being 409

Chapter 18 Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change and Stress 411
Manfred Kets de Vries, Laura Guill´en Ramo and Konstantin Korotov

Chapter 19 Building Interventions to Improve Staff Well-Being 427
Gordon Tinline and Ben Moss

Chapter 20 Stress and Effectiveness: An Approach for Changing Organizational Culture 445
Marc J. Schabracq and Iva Smit

Chapter 21 Epilogue 471
Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq

Index 477

"Recommended for academic collections, upper-division undergraduate
and above, as well as professional libraries." (CHOICE,
September 2010)

"This excellent book helps readers understand how difficulties
arise in the workplace and focuses on prevention of problems. It is
practical, easy to read, and gives recommendations for positive
change. The book covers many different topics, both on the
individual and organizational level. It ends with encouraging the
organization to become healthy, while maximizing profits,
productivity, and employee sense of well?]being. The third edition
incorporates new research findings and has new contributors who
focus on intervention and prevention." (Doody's, June 2010)

'The timing of this Handbook could not be better. Now the
World's economies appear to be starting to recover from
Global Financial Crash, there will be a stronger need than ever for
organizations to manage the health of their employees. Financial
stringency, longer hours, demands for performance all contribute to
stress and, unless managed appropriately, can result in negative
health outcomes. What I really like about this book, therefore, is
its increased emphasis on positive outcomes. It's not all
doom and gloom. Based on the latest evidence-based research, the
authors of the chapters in the Handbook provide a positive agenda
for improving workplace health and wellbeing.'

--Neal M. Ashkanasy, Professor of Management, The
University of Queensland, Australia

'Positive emotions lead to health, health leads to
sustainability and full cognitive capability, and this leads to
effective performance and adaptability. This latest collection of
papers by the terrific trio of Cooper, Quick and Schabracq helps
shine the light on the latest research from multiple fields in the
context of an emerging literature that will soon become required
reading for anyone wanting to be a manager, executive, leader, or
professional.'

--Professor Richard E. Boyatzis, Case Western Reserve
University, USA

'Health is a key driver of economic growth and an
invaluable resource. This new edition of the Handbook of Work and
Health Psychology is very timely in reflecting the important
economic and social changes which have impacted on the nature of
work, work organization and employee health and well being in
recent years.

'In particular, the book highlights the key importance of
an organizational strategy for health improvement build around
intervention and prevention. The book is an excellent up-to-date
resource for those interested or working in the area of
occupational psychology and health.'

--Professor Susan Cartwright, Centre for Organizational
Health and Well Being, Lancaster University, UK