Preventing stress, improving productivity : European case studies in the workplace /

Changing the workplace to help prevent stress is much more cost effective in the long term than treating employees for the effects of stress. But to date, there has been little guidance for employers who wish to implement such programmes. This text has gathered together examples of best practice in...

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Other Authors: Kompier, Michiel, Cooper, Cary L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0203271386
9780203271384
9780203447055
0203447050
9780415165563
0415165563
9780415165570
0415165571
0203755294
9780203755297
128020253X
9781280202537
9786610202539
6610202532
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : improving work, health and productivity through stress prevention / Michiel Kompier and Cary Cooper
  • 2. Workplace stress and stress prevention in Europe / Sabine Geurts and Robert Gründemann
  • 3. Costs and benefits of stress prevention in organisations : review and new methodology / Paula Liukkonen, Susan Cartwright and Cary Cooper
  • 4. Finland : organisational well-being. Ten years of research and development in a forest industry corporation / Raija Kalimo and Salla Toppinen
  • 5. The Netherlands : a hospital, 'Healthy working for health' / Ellis Lourijsen [and others]
  • 6. Belgium : a pharmaceutical company / Steven Poelmans [and others]
  • 7. United Kingdom : evaluation of a stress management programme in the public sector / Lynne Whatmore, Susan Cartwright and Cary Cooper
  • 8. Denmark : self-rule on route 166. An intervention study among bus drivers / Bo Netterstrøm
  • 9. Sweden : Mail processing / Töres Theorell and Kurt Wahlstedt
  • 10. Germany : reduction of stress by health circles / Beate Beermann, Karl Kuhn and Michiel Kompier
  • 11. Ireland : stress prevention in an airport management company / Richard Wynne and Rose Rafferty
  • 12. Portugal : preventing occupational stress in a bank organisation / Luís Graça and Michiel Kompier
  • 13. Greece : stress management in the health care sector / Elisabeth Petsetaki
  • 14. Italy : a school of nursing / Sebastiano Bagnara [and others]
  • 15. Stress prevention : European countries and European cases compared / Michiel Kompier and Cary Cooper.