Management of Occupational Stress: Theories and Practice

This book is primarily meant for stress management practitioners and stress researchers. However, it would prove equally useful also to individual employees and general readers. Though the main emphasis of the book is on management of occupational stress and consequent strains, in the interest of general readers, it provides basic information on the concept, sources and consequences of occupational stress in separate sections. Though various techniques of stress management are interrelated in the book, various techniques or interventions have been separately discussed in the order of the stage of their operation. In this order the book covers from strategies to prevent role stress at individual (cognitive, behavioural and physiological) and organization levels to therapeutic treatment of stress disorders. The interventions for eliminating or mitigating, coing with, and moderating the stress and strains have been included between two extremes of stress management practices. Along with the procedural elaboration of various intervention strategies, the related theoretical concepts and relevant researches have also been referred. Finally, certain issues relating to stress management practice and some guidelines for making effective application of various techniques have also been discussed.