Description
Book SynopsisEvidence is accumulating that in many contemporary work environments people are literally working themselves to death. But what do we really know about job-related stress and illness? Based on a ten-year study of nearly five thousand workers, this path-breaking book by a distinguished industrial engineer and sociologist and a specialist in industrial medicine identifies a clear connection between work-related illness and workers'' lack of participation in the design and outcome of their labours.
Table of ContentsThe Psychosocial Work Environment, Health, and Well-Being * Health, Productivity, and Work Life * The Psychosocial Work Environment * The Environment, the Worker, and Illness: Psychological and Physiological Linkages * Psychosocial Job Characteristics and Heart Disease Health, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working Life * Psychosocial Job Characteristics and Productivity * Integrating Worker Health Analysis and Job Redesign * The Organizational Context of Job Redesign for Health and Productivity * The Technological Context of Job Redesign * Job Design Strategies for Different Occupational Groups * Jobs of the Future and the Global Economy
