Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Work and Wellbeing

Peter Y. Chen is Professor of Management at the University of South Australia Business School. Cary L. Cooper is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University.

Contents of this Volume

About the Editors ix

Contributors xi

Full Contents of Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide xiii

Introduction to Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide xxvii

Part 1 Introduction 1

1 Introduction: From Stress to Happiness 3
Peter Y. Chen and Cary L. Cooper

2 Conceptualizing and Measuring Wellbeing at Work 9
Cynthia D. Fisher

Part 2 Resources, Coping, and Control 35

3 Job DemandswResources Theory 37
Arnold B. Bakker and Evangelia Demerouti

4 Positive Psychology and Coping: Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship 65
Philip Dewe

5 The Role of Workplace Control in Positive Health and Wellbeing 91
Erin M. Eatough and Paul E. Spector

Part 3 Happy Workers and Happy Organizations 111

6 The Happy Worker: Revisiting the ‘‘Happy–Productive Worker’’ Thesis 113
Peter Hosie and Nada ElRakhawy

7 Organizational Characteristics of Happy Organizations 139
Bret L. Simmons

Part 4 Character and Wellbeing 157

8 Character and Wellbeing 159
Thomas A. Wright and Tyler Lauer

9 Stress, Health, and Wellbeing in Practice: Workplace Leadership and Leveraging Stress for Positive Outcomes 175
James Campbell Quick, Joel Bennett, and M. Blake Hargrove

Part 5 Organizational Strategies to Promote Wellbeing 205

10 Cancer, Work, and the Quality of Working Life: A Narrative Review 207
Tom Cox, Sara MacLennan, and James N’Dow

11 Lead Well, Be Well: Leadership Behaviors Influence Employee Wellbeing 235
Jennifer Robertson and Julian Barling

12 Organizational Coping Strategies and Wellbeing 253
Gordon Tinline and Matthew Smeed

13 Workplace Mistreatment: Recent Developments in Theory, Research, and Interventions 263
Michael Hanrahan and Michael P. Leiter

14 The Sustainable Workforce: Organizational Strategies for Promoting Work–Life Balance and Wellbeing 295
Ellen Ernst Kossek, Monique Valcour, and Pamela Lirio

15 Development of a Theoretically Grounded Model of Sexual Harassment Awareness Training Effectiveness 319
Lisa M. Kath and Vicki J. Magley

16 The Working Wounded: Stigma and Return to Work 339
Lori Francis, James E. Cameron, E. Kevin Kelloway,Victor M. Catano, Arla L. Day, and C. Gail Hepburn

17 Job Stress in University Academics: Evidence from an Australian National Study 357
Anthony H. Winefield

Part 6 From Research to National Policy 379

18 Longitudinal Research in Occupational Stress: A Review of Methodological Issues 381
Robert C. Brusso, Konstantin P. Cigularov, and Rachel C. Callan

19 Measuring Wellbeing in Modern Societies 409
Paul Allin

Index 465