Coping with Work Stress A Review and Critique

Coping With Work Stress: A Review and Critique highlights the most up-to-date research relating to effective coping strategies of individuals and organizations and provides a series of invaluable "best practice" techniques for dealing with the growing epidemic of stress and lack of overall well-being at work. The authors renowned experts in the field offer their carefully considered critical reviews of issues surrounding the latest work stress and coping studies and identify several new strategic pathways to stimulate future research.

Philip J. Dewe is Vice-Master of Birkbeck and Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. He is a member of the editorial board of Work and Stress and the International journal of Stress Management, and an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Heath Promotion. Michael P. O'Driscoll is Professor of Psychology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is the co-author of several books relating to work stress, has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and was editor of the New Zealand journal of Psychology, 2001-2006. Cary L. Cooper, CBE, is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University. He is also Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, President of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Editor of the journal Stress and Health and was lead scientist on the UK government's Foresight project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing.