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Title Organizational risk factors for job stress / edited by Steven L. Sauter and Lawrence R. Murphy.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) : illustrations
File Type Electronic book.
Access Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Form Also available in print.
System Details Mode of access: world wide web.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / Robert H. Rosen -- Preface / Laurence R. Murphy and Steven L. Sauter -- 1. The changing face of work and stress / Steven L. Sauter and Lawrence R. Murphy -- Conceptualizing risk factors for job stress: new paradigms -- Part I: Organizational culture and climate -- Introduction -- 2. The healthy company: research paradigms for personal and organizational health / Dennis T. Jaffe -- 3. Perception of support from the organization in relation to work stress, satisfaction, and commitment / Bill Jones, Deborah M. Flynn, and E. Kevin Kelloway -- 4. The relationship of role conflict and ambiguity to organizational culture / Marjolijn van der Velde and Michael D. Class -- 5. Organizational climate and work stress: a general framework applied to inner-city schoolteachers / John L. Michela, Marlene P. Lukaszewski, and John P. Allegrante -- 6. Defining and measuring hostile environment: development of the hostile environment inventory / Gloria Fisher, Elizabeth M. Semko, and F. John Wade -- Part II: The job demand-job control model -- Introduction -- 7. Job strain, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: empirical evidence, methodological issues, and recommendations for further research / Paul A. Landsbergis, Peter L. Schnall, Joseph E. Schwartz, Katherine Warren, and Thomas G. Pickering -- 8. Job stress, neuroendocrine activation, and immune status / Theo F. Meijman, Max van Dormolen, Robert F.M. Herber, Herman Rongen, and Symen Kuiper -- 9. An investigation of the demand-control model of job strain / Sally A. Radmacher and Charles L. Sheridan -- 10. The regulation of work demands and strain / Andrew J. Tattersall and Eric W. Farmer -- Emergent risks in today's workplace -- Part III: A risky management practice: electronic performance monitoring -- Introduction -- 11. Electronic performance monitoring: a risk factor for workplace stress / John R. Aiello and Kathryn J. Kolb
12. The effects of human versus computer monitoring of performance on physiological reactions and perceptions of stress / Marian K. Silverman and Carlla S. Smith -- 13. Mood disturbance and musculoskeletal discomfort effects of electronic performance monitoring in a VDT data-entry task / Lawrence M. Schleifer, Traci L. Galinsky, and Christopher S. Pan -- Part IV: High risk occupations -- Introduction -- 14. Risk factors and occupational risk groups for work stress in the Netherlands / Irene L.D. Houtman and Michiel A.J. Kompier -- 15. Stress-symptom factors in firefighters and paramedics / Randal Beaton, Shirley Murphy, Kenneth Pike, and Monica Jarrett -- 16. Work-related stress and depression in emergency medicine residents / Dennis A. Revicki and Theodore W. Whitley -- 17. Burnout, technology use, and ICU performance / Wilmar B. Schaufeli, Ger J. Keijsers, and Dinis Reis Miranda -- 18. Patient assaults on psychologists: an unrecognized occupational hazard / Jane Y. Fong -- 19. Musicians: a neglected working population in crisis / David J. Sternbach -- 20. Exhilarating work: an antidote for dangerous work? / Nancy J. McIntosh -- Identifying risk factors for job stress -- Part V: Methodological developments -- Introduction -- 21. Methodological issues in occupational stress research: research in one occupational group and wider / Irvin S. Schonfeld, Jaesoon Rhee, and Fang Xia -- 22. Effects of manipulated job stressors and job attitude on perceived job conditions: a simulation / Peter Y. Chen, Paul E. Spector, and Steve M. Jex -- 23. Chronic effect of job control, supervisory social support, and work pressure on office-worker stress / Pascale Carayon -- 24. Emotional labor as a potential source of job stress / Pamela K. Adelmann.
Summary This . . . volume investigates the changing structure of work in our society and presents empirical research studies that examine organizational factors that appear to promote or decrease job stress. /// [The book] is divided into 3 sections covering new developments by which researchers conceptualize risk factors for job stress; emergent stressors in today's workplace, including the pros and cons of electronic performance monitoring and the stressors experienced by those who work in high-risk jobs in the health and helping professions; and ways of improving the methodology in studies of organizational risk factors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
Issued By Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection.
Note GMD: electronic resource.
Subject Job stress.
Quality of work life.
Work environment.
Employees -- Health risk assessment.
Stress, Psychological -- etiology.
Work -- psychology.
Risk Factors.
Organizational Culture.
Job Satisfaction.
Burnout, Professional -- etiology.
Employees -- Health risk assessment. (OCoLC)fst00909154
Job stress. (OCoLC)fst00983752
Quality of work life. (OCoLC)fst01085055
Work environment. (OCoLC)fst01180270
Added Author Sauter, Steven L., 1946-
Murphy, Lawrence R.
American Psychological Association.
Other Form: Organization risk factors for job stress (print) (DLC) 95031599
ISBN 155798297X (print)
9781557982971 (print)
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