Workplace Psychological Health: Current Research and Practice

by Paula Brough, Michael O'Driscoll, Thomas Kalliath, Cary Cooper, Steven Poelmans

Overview

This insightful book provides a comprehensive overview of modern occupational health psychology, collated by leading international academics. The authors offer timely and expert discussion on core themes in this rapidly developing, state-of-the-art field.

Each of the eleven original chapters describes an essential topic within occupational health psychology, all focusing on the most progressive and contemporary international research. Included are chapters on subjects with established research history, for example occupational stress and job satisfaction, alongside newly emerging additions such as work addiction and executive coaching.

This book will be an invaluable and unique reference source for organizational health academics, researchers and postgraduate students. Workplace Psychological Health is also offered as a useful companion text to human resource professionals and practitioners wanting to maintain continuing professional development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847207654
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	07/29/2009
Series:	New Horizons in Management series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Paula Brough, Professor of Organisational Psychology; Director, Centre for Work, Organisation & Wellbeing; Griffith University, Australia, Michael O’Driscoll, Professor of Psychology, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, Thomas Kalliath, Associate Professor in Management, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Cary Cooper, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK and Steven Poelmans, Antwerp Management School, Belgium

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction 1. Work and Psychological Well-being 2. Work and Physical Health 3. Job Satisfaction 4. Job Support and Job Control 5. Occupational Stress and Coping 6. Work–Family Balance 7. Work Addiction co-authored with Dr Aline Masuda 8. Workplace Violence and Aggression 9. Psychological Health and Technological Change 10. Executive Coaching co-authored by Olena Stepanova 11. Organizational Counselling and Fitness Programmes References Index

Editorial Reviews

'Written by a renown group of international scholars, Workplace Psychological Health is an in-depth look at the newly emerging field of occupational health psychology. The book provides a comprehensive overview of workplace issues concerning employee health, safety, and well-being. The book integrates the major research areas of occupational health, safety, work-family and health. It would be a good source for researchers, students, and others looking for a thorough introduction to occupational health psychology.'

Paul Spector

'Describing organisations as "ever changing" or "increasingly pressured" has been allowed to become a cliche. It is refreshing, therefore, to find a book which coolly and objectively reviews the psychological health issues in today's workplaces. From perennial problems such as occupational stress and job satisfaction to the contemporary issues of work addiction and the psychological impacts of email and the internet, this book makes a valuable contribution to the debate about the duty of care every employer has to their people in the 21st century.'

David Fairhurst

‘Workplace Psychological Health is a thorough overview of what psychology has to tell us about maintaining mental health in the workplace. . . An objective, studious and thoughtful resource, enhanced with an exhaustive list of references and an index, highly recommended especially for psychology and college studies shelves.'

The Midwest Book Review