Book description
Preventing Stress in Organizations: How to Develop Positive Managers offers 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 environment
Shows practitioners in occupational psychology, HR, Health and Safety and related professions how positive management can be integrated into an organization???s existing practices and processes
Serves as an essential guide for managers themselves on how to incorporate proven stress management skills into their everyday interactions with team members
Balances rigorous research grounding with real-world vignettes, case studies and exercises
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Why managing stress is important: The business and legal reasons
- Chapter 3: How to manage work-related stress
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Chapter 4: Developing a framework to promote positive manager behaviour
- Rationale: The Need for a Stress Management Approach Focusing on Positive Manager Behaviour
- Why We Took a Competency-Based Approach
- The Research Underlying the Positive Manager Behaviour Framework and Approach
- The Positive Manager Behaviour Framework
- Evidence to Support a Positive Manager Behaviour Approach
- Useful Resources
- References
- Chapter 5: Respectful and responsible: Managing emotions and having integrity (management competency 1)
- Chapter 6: Managing and communicating existing and future work (management competency 2)
- Chapter 7: Managing the individual within the team (management competency 3)
- Chapter 8: Reasoning/managing difficult situations (management competency 4)
- Chapter 9: Overcoming barriers to positive manager behaviour
- Chapter 10: Supporting managers to change their behaviour
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Chapter 11: Is stress management just good management?
- Comparing Positive Manager Behaviour with General Management/Leadership Competency Frameworks
- Implications for Practice
- How to Do Your Own Mapping
- How to Identify Missing Positive Manager Behaviour Elements
- How to Integrate Missing Positive Manager Behaviour Elements
- Valuing People Management Skills
- References
- Chapter 12: The way forward
- Appendix
- Index
Product information
- Title: Preventing Stress in Organizations: How to Develop Positive Managers
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2011
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9780470665527
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