The Handbook of Work and Health Psychology - Hardcover

Workplace health is now recognised as having major legal, financial and efficiency implications for organizations. Psychologists are increasingly called on as consultants or in house facilitators to help design work processes, assess and counsel individuals and advise on change management. The second edition of this handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date survey of the field with a focus on the applied aspects of work and health psychology. An unrivalled source of knowledge and references in the field, for students and academics, this edition also reflects the need to relate research to effective and realistic interventions in the workplace. Editors are outstanding leaders in their fields Focuses on linking research to practice Over 50% new chapters. New topics include Coping, The Psychological Contract and Health, Assessment and Measurement of Stress and Well-Being, the Effects of Change, and chapters of Conflict and Communication

Workplace health is now recognized as having major legal, financial and efficiency implications for organizations. The workplace itself has become a health issue. This new edition of The Handbook of Work and Health Psychology continues to provide a comprehensive, authoritative and current survey of this important field and its future territory.

With a focus on the applied aspects of work and health psychology and linking research with practice, Marc Schabracq, Jacques Winnubst and Cary Cooper have assembled authors in their respective fields. Together they identify not only the problems but also possible solutions to creating healthier work organizations.

This handbook is an unrivalled source of knowledge and references in the field – an essential resource for libraries serving students, researchers and practitioners in work and organizational psychology, health psychology, occupational medicine, and human resource managers and policy-makers in the workplace.

Contributors

Ronald J. Burke, Canada

Bram P. Buunk, The Netherlands

Neil Conway, UK

Cary L. Cooper, UK

Tom Cox, UK

M. de Best-Waldhober, The Netherlands

Carsten K. W. de Dreu, The Netherlands

Evangelia Demerouti, The Netherlands

Carla L. Dunahoo, USA

Ben [C]. Fletcher, UK

Pamela A. Geller, USA

Sabine A. E. Geurts, The Netherlands

Siegfried Greif, Germany

Amanda Griffiths, UK

David E. Guest, UK

Andrew Guppy, UK

Kai-Christoph Hamborg, Germany

Stevan E. Hobfoll, USA

Fiona Jones, UK

Rolf J. Kleber, The Netherlands

Michiel A. J Kompier, The Netherlands

John Marsden, UK

Joan L. Meyer, The Netherlands

Lawrence R. Murphy, USA

Paul B. Paulus, USA

James Campbell Quick, USA

Kathleen D. Ryan, USA

Marc J. Schabracq, The Netherlands

Wilmar B. Schaufeli, The Netherlands

Norbert K. Semmer, Switzerland

Arie Shirom, Israel

Töres Theorell, Sweden

Peter G. Van der Velden, The Netherlands

D. van Dierendonck, The Netherlands

James L. Whittington, USA

Jacques A. M. Winnubst, The Netherlands