Description
Book SynopsisManaging stress just got easier
This book is written for managers as a simple, practical guide to the principles and techniques for managing stress at work. It looks at stress from an organizational perspective as well as highlighting practical steps individual managers can take to enable them to gain competitive advantage through effective management of their most valuable asset - their people. Even if you have no direct line-management responsibilities now, you can use what you have learnt to influence decision-makers,
perhaps even your own line manager, to better manage stress in the workplace.
This book will help you understand what stress is, why we get stressed and some of its physiological and psychological symptoms. You will learn about some of the background research into the psychology of stress and consider a variety of theories and models. More importantly, with this simple guidance, practical techniques and some relevant examples you will be able to
Table of Contents
- : Sunday: What is stress?
- : Sunday: What is stress?
- : Monday: Psychological and physiological aspects of stress
- : Monday: Psychological and physiological aspects of stress
- : Tuesday: Job roles, responsibility and level of control
- : Tuesday: Job roles, responsibility and level of control
- : Wednesday: Workload, work pressure and work environment
- : Wednesday: Workload, work pressure and work environment
- : Thursday: Behaviours, conflict and support
- : Thursday: Behaviours, conflict and support
- : Friday: Stress and change management
- : Friday: Stress and change management
- : Saturday: Personal responsibility and actions
- : Saturday: Personal responsibility and actions
