Description
Book SynopsisThe latest in a series focused on improving health conditions, this volume addresses work environments, bringing together diverse sources of literature that support preventive approaches to work design and organization. This reference provides an overview of relevant literature to engineers, managers, accountants, occupational health and safety specialists, and industrial hygienists, so that they and other professionals can understand what has caused our workplaces to become primary sources of physical and mental illness. By focusing on diagnostic and prescriptive approaches, managers can implement designs and decisions that preventor greatly reduceundesired and harmful effects. Other titles in the series include: Healthy Cities Sustainable Production Sustainable Energy
Trade ReviewThis annotated bibliography will be useful for students of human work and the diverse disciplines it touches (e.g., engineering, management, technology design, public policy, sociology). Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. * CHOICE *
The annotations are detailed and informative, as is the preface that thoroughly explains the underlying links between human work, communities, and society identified by the authors. This bibliography is a useful research, reference, and collection development tool. * American Reference Books Annual *
Healthy Work is recommended for academic libraries supporting graduate or undergraduate programs in occupational health, industrial technology, industrial psychology, business administration, or industrial design and for special collections or departmental libraries in those areas. Certainly libraries holding the previous bibliographies in this series will want to add this one. Corporate libraries with active or proposed wellness programs would find this title a useful addition in keeping with Vanderburg's stated purpose. * Medical Reference Services Quarterly *
...the authors examine typical workplace conditions and locate literature that addresses possible causes. The literature is listed alphabetically by author, but listings include key words and phrases which are the basis of the vitally important keyword index. Some of the issues the literature addresses include equality, psychology, management, morale, professional culture, stress, alienation, work design, and unions. * Scitech Book News *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Healthy Work Bibliography Chapter 3 Author Index Chapter 4 Keyword Index Chapter 5 About the Authors
