Stress And Work: Perspectives on Understanding and Managing Stress

ISBN 10: 8132110889 / ISBN 13: 9788132110880

Published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stress And Work: Perspectives on Understanding and Managing Stress
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8132110889
• ISBN 13: 9788132110880
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: International Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Stress and Work focuses on the problem of stress from various angles and perspectives and provides empirical findings relevant to different occupational settings. It provides comprehensive research literature, which has been divided along the following theoretical perspectives: Occupational Stress and Burnout; Work–Family Conflict and Stress; Positive Stress Management; and Stress and Spirituality.

This volume will be a resource-book for researchers and practitioners of management, psychology, sociology, and behavioral sciences. The prospective reader of human society and human nature will find this volume to be of immense utility.

About the Authors

Satish Pandey, PhD, is currently working with School of Petroleum Management (SPM), Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, as Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior and HRM area, since August 2007. He has done PhD in Psychology from Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar (Uttarakhand), in 1995. He has around 16 years’ teaching and research experience at various institutions. Prior to joining SPM, he has worked with reputed institutions like Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), Nirma Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Institute of Banking Personnel Selection, Mumbai (IBPS), and Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani. He has presented papers in national and international academic conferences, and published papers in refereed journals and edited books on topics related to stress management, personality, organizational culture, cross-cultural management, organizational turnaround, organizational learning, and behavior change communication.

D M Pestonjee, PhD, is currently associated with School of Petroleum Management, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, as GSPL Chair Professor since July 2009. He is also associated with CEPT University, Ahmedabad, as Dean, Faculty of Applied Management. He has served at eminent institutions like IIM, Ahmedabad and Banaras Hindu University. He is a psychologist having PhD in Industrial Psychology from the Aligarh Muslim University and he was conferred the D.Litt. (Honoris Causa) by the Banaras Hindu University in April 2003. In November, 2000, he was conferred the title of Honorary Professor of the Albert Schweitzer International University, Geneva (Switzerland). He was awarded the Albert Schweitzer Medal for Science and Peace in April 2004. He has over four decades of teaching and research experience. Among his better known works are: Organization Structure and Job Attitudes (1973), Behavioral Processes in Organization (1981), Second Handbook of Psychological and Social Instruments (1988), Third Handbook of Psychological and Social Instruments (1997), Studies in Organizational Roles and Stress and Coping (1997), Studies in Stress and Its Management (1999), and the celebrated Stress and Coping: The Indian Experience (1992, 2002).