Stress, Self-Esteem, Health and Work Book

List of Tables and Figures     x
Foreword   Carl L. Cooper     xii
Introduction and Acknowledgements     xiii
Work, Stress and Health: An Overview     1
Can the goal of high productivity be reconciled with the goal of quality work life?     1
Quality of work life and stress at work     6
Work, stress and health     8
The great paradox of the 21st century: better physical conditions in the workplace, but worse psychological conditions and more work-related stress     12
Chapter postscript     13
Test your quality of work life     18
Models and Concepts in Understanding Occupational Stress     20
Stress: definitions     20
Stress: different models     24
Determining factors of occupational stress     39
So, what exactly is occupational stress?     43
Chapter postscript     44
Test your stress level     45
Self-Esteem and Stress: A Critical Analysis     48
What is self-esteem?     48
Antecedent and consequential variables of self-esteem     57
Self-esteem and confidence     64
Self-esteem: between depression and narcissism     70
Self-esteem and hetero-esteem:bene-volence     74
Self-esteem and youth     76
Self-esteem and gender     77
Self-esteem and stress     77
Keys for developing individual self-esteem and avoiding stress     84
Chapter postscript     89
Test your self-esteem     90
Why Does Occupational Stress Occur? Antecedents and Consequences     94
Stress as a difficulty in adapting to the environment     94
Antecedents of stress     99
Stress and personality     103
Consequences of occupational stress     112
Chapter postscript     120
A quick stress audit     123
Individual Strategies for Managing Occupational Stress     128
Introduction     128
Strategies to manage stress connected with physiological and motor characteristics     130
Strategies to manage stress connected with cognitive, behavioral and emotional characteristics     141
Boosting our self-esteem     156
Chapter postscript     160
A practical technique for reducing your level of family, social and/or work stress     161
Organizational Strategies for Managing Occupational Stress     165
General framework and perspective within the European Union      166
Main obstacles to stress intervention in the company     168
Stages and methodologies for occupationals tress management     169
Intervention within the company: focus on classic origins     174
Intervention within the company: focus on human resource practices and policies     180
Cases and examples of occupational stress prevention programs     183
Chapter postscript     186
Stress diagnosis inventory (SD1)     189
Corporate Self-Esteem, Leadership, Stress and Organizations of the Future     191
Introduction     192
The role of leadership in increasing or reducing corporate self-esteem     195
The rise of the management by values philosophy     206
The triaxial model of praxic, ethical and poietic values     216
Management by values: a framework for combining employees' well-being and corporate success     221
Corporate self-esteem and empowerment     226
Chapter postscript: stress, corporate self-esteem, health and productivity     228
Assessment of your corporate self-esteem     232
A Contract with Myself     237
Index     238