Author(s): Cary Cooper
Edition: 1
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 368
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 11
List of tables......Page 13
List of contributors......Page 16
Foreword......Page 18
Introduction: Improving work, health and productivity through stress prevention......Page 20
Workplace stress and stress prevention in Europe......Page 28
Costs and benefits of stress prevention in organisations: Review and new methodology......Page 52
Finland: Organisational well-being. Ten years of research and development in a forest industry corporation......Page 71
The Netherlands: A hospital, 'Healthy Working for Health'......Page 105
Belgium: A pharmaceutical company......Page 140
United Kingdom: Evaluation of a stress management programme in the public sector......Page 168
Denmark: Self-rule on route 166. An intervention study among bus drivers......Page 194
Sweden: Mail processing......Page 214
Germany: Reduction of stress by health circles......Page 241
Ireland: Stress prevention in an airport management company......Page 261
Portugal: Preventing occupational stress in a bank organisation......Page 283
Greece: Stress management in the health care sector......Page 304
Italy: A school of nursing......Page 316
Stress prevention: European countries and European cases compared......Page 331
Index......Page 356
