Management of Occupational Health and Safety

E. Kevin Kelloway; Lori Francis; Bernadette Gatien

ISBN 10: 0176657177 / ISBN 13: 9780176657178

Published by Nelson College Indigenous, 2016

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About the Authors: Dr. Kelloway is the Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health Psychology and a Professor of Psychology at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. He was the founding director of the CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and a founding principal of the Centre for Leadership Excellence. Dr. Kelloway is a prolific researcher, having published more than 100 articles, book chapters, and technical reports. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology. His research interests include occupational health psychology, leadership, the development and measurement of work attitudes and values, unionization, and innovation in organizations. He is co-author of The Union and Its Members: A Psychological Approach (Oxford University Press), Using Flexible Work Arrangements to Combat Job Stress (Wiley), and Management of Occupational Health and Safety (Nelson), and the author of Using LISREL for Structural Equation Modeling: A Researcher’s Guide (Sage). With Dr. Julian Barling (Queen’s University), he edited the book series Advanced Topics in Organizational Psychology (Sage) and has co-edited Young Workers: Varieties of Experience (APA). He also co-edited Handbook of Work Stress and Handbook of Workplace Violence (both Sage) as well as Occupational Health and Safety for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (Elgar). Dr. Kelloway frequently reviews for academic journals or conferences and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, and Canadian Psychology. He is Associate Editor of Work & Stress and a section editor for Stress & Health. Dr. Kelloway also maintains an active practice consulting with private- and public-sector organizations on issues related to leadership, and occupational health psychology.

Lori Francis holds a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Guelph. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Saint Marys University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr. Francis has broad research interests in occupational health psychology, including work stress, workplace aggression and violence, health-related interventions in the workplace and organizational justice. Her Ph.D. dissertation on organizational injustice as a workplace stressor was awarded the International Alliance of Human Resources Researchers best doctoral dissertation award. She is a member of the CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety. Dr. Francis also has an extensive consulting record, having worked with government, military, and private industry.

Bernadette Gatien holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in industrial organizational psychology from Saint Mary’s University. Her research interests include safety culture and climate assessment, safety culture improvement, safety training and development, and the impact of leader behaviours on employee safety behaviours. Dr. Gatien has conducted applied research with various organizations in both the public sector and private industry. In addition to teaching in Saint Mary’s departments of psychology and management, she continues to provide consulting services to organizations in need of safety-related organizational development.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Management of Occupational Health and Safety
Publisher: Nelson College Indigenous
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket