International Handbook of Work and Health Psychology

About the Editors ix List of Contributors xi Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq Part I: The Context ofWork and Health Today 7 Chapter 2 Health andWell-Being: The Role of the Psychological Contract 9 David Guest and Neil Conway Chapter 3 The Social Context of Work Life: Implications for Burnout and Work Engagement 25 Michael P. Leiter and Naomi Stright Chapter 4 The Effects of Job Strain on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease 49 Arie Shirom, Galit Armon, Shlomo Berliner, Itzhak Shapira and Samuel Melamed Chapter 5 Sickness Presenteeism and Attendance Pressure Factors: Implications for Practice 77 Caroline Biron and Per Øystein Saksvik Part II: Individual Differences and Health 97 Chapter 6 Individual Differences, Work Stress and Health 99 Norbert K. Semmer and Laurenz L. Meier Chapter 7 Gender and Work Stress: Unique Stressors, Unique Responses 123 Faye K. Cocchiara and Myrtle P. Bell Chapter 8 Work Experiences, Stress and Health among Managerial Women: Research and Practice 147 Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen Part III: The Role ofWorkplace Factors on Health 171 Chapter 9 The Role of Job Control in Employee Health and Well-Being 173 Paul E. Spector Chapter 10 Stress and Careers 197 Yehuda Baruch Chapter 11 New Technologies and Stress 221 Kai-Christoph Hamborg and Siegfried Greif Chapter 12 Flexibility at Work in Relation to Employee Health 251 T¨ores Theorell Chapter 13 Acute Stress at Work 269 Rolf J. Kleber and Peter G. van der Velden Part IV: Supporting Individuals atWork 293 Chapter 14 Management Development for Well-Being and Survival: Developing the Whole Person 295 Rosemary Maellaro and J. Lee Whittington Chapter 15 Coaching in Organizations 329 Helen Williams and Stephen Palmer Chapter 16 Women’s Coping: Communal Versus Individualistic Orientation 353 Pamela A. Geller, Stevan E. Hobfoll and Carla Dunahoo Chapter 17 Employee Assistance Programs: A Research-Based Primer 383 Mark Attridge Part V: Organizational Approaches to Health andWell-Being 409 Chapter 18 Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change and Stress 411 Manfred Kets de Vries, Laura Guill´en Ramo and Konstantin Korotov Chapter 19 Building Interventions to Improve Staff Well-Being 427 Gordon Tinline and Ben Moss Chapter 20 Stress and Effectiveness: An Approach for Changing Organizational Culture 445 Marc J. Schabracq and Iva Smit Chapter 21 Epilogue 471 Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq Index 477