Job Stress in a Changing Workforce
Investigating Gender, Diversity and Family Issues
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-1-55798-271-1 (ISBN)
Description
Work-related stress is one of the most significant, pressing issues of our time. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, psychological disorders are one of the ten leading work-related impairments in the United States, accounting for an estimated $15 billion in disability payouts and lost wages. This text presents critical research studies and thought on the ways job stresses can affect individual workers. With the rapid changes in work over the last decade, particularly the shift away from manufacturing toward service industries and the impact of intensified international competition, new challenges and new stresses to workers have emerged. The book examines the economic and demographic trends, focusing on the new demands posed by workforce diversity (gender, age, cultural and ethnic factors affecting careers, stress, harassment and social identity) and work and family topics such as child care, marital functioning and balancing multiple work/non-work roles. By clarifying many of the current ambiguities in our knowledge of work stress, this book should help set the agenda for research in this area of psychological inquiry.
The book is a result of the 1992 conference on "Stress in the `90s: A Changing Workforce in a Changing Workplace".
The book is a result of the 1992 conference on "Stress in the `90s: A Changing Workforce in a Changing Workplace".
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55798-271-1 (9781557982711)
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Content
Gender Differences in Stress Symptoms, Stress Producing Contexts and Coping Strategies; Desiring Careers but Loving Families - Period, Cohort and Gender Effects in Career and Family Orientations; Gender, Work and Mental Distress in an Institutional Labour Force - An Expansion of Karasek's Job Strain Model; Measurement of Sexual Harassment in Organizations - An Integrated Model; Unemployment, Social Resources and Mental and Physical Health - A Three-way Study on Men and Women in a Stressful Life Transition; Organizational Stress and Coping in Seven National Contexts - A Cross-Cultural Investigation; Job Stress and Health Outcomes Among Anglo and Hispanic Employees - A Test of the Person-Environment Fit Model; Social Identity, Work Stress and Minority Workers' Health; Work and Wellbeing in an Ethnoculturally Pluralistic Society - Conceptual and Methodological Issues; The Effects of Age, Financial Strain and Vocational Expectancies Upon the Stress-Related Affect of Adult Job Losers; Older Working Widows - Present and Expected Experiences of Stress and Quality of Life in Comparison to Married Workers; Improving Older Workers' Working Conditions by Analyzing Attitudes Towards Early Retirement; Child Care Difficulties and Impact on Concentration, Stress and Productivity Among Single and Non-Single Fathers and Mothers; Subjective Work Stress and Family Violence; Stress, Control, Wellbeing and Marital Functioning - A Causal Correlational Analysis; Family-Friendly Workplaces, Work-Family Interface and Worker Health; Marriage and Children for Professional Women - Asset and Liability?; Balancing the Multiple Roles of Work and Caregiving for Children, Adults and Elders; Work and Life Experiences - Career Patterns Among Managerial and Professional Women; Linking Unemployment Experiences, Depressive Symptoms and Marital Functioning - A Mediational Model.