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Volume 20 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being
features contributions that expand the understanding of how
occupational stressors can build employee resilience and enhance
their well-being while at the same time creating negative employee
outcomes such as depletion, exhaustion, and depression. To this
end, chapters take a hard look at examining the outcomes of work
stressors, the circumstances or conditions that can change or even
reverse the relationship between stressors and outcomes, and
theoretical accounts for apparent contradictions in this
literature. Examining the Paradox of Occupational Stressors:
Building Resilience or Creating Depletion represents insightful,
intriguing, and timely research into the paradox of experienced
stress in the workplace.
Volume 19 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being
explores and enhances our understanding of how stress and
well-being at work can change over time. Much of the prior
literature in occupational stress and well-being is designed to
look at antecedents of stress and well-being, treating them as
dependent variables. Although these models implicitly acknowledge
the dynamic nature of stress and well-being, they are often
assessed at a single time point and treated as a static end-state.
This volume moves beyond this approach by explicitly examining
stress and well-being as a dynamic phenomenon by examining changes
in stress and well-being that happen developmentally, because of
intentional interventions on the part of organizations, in response
to job role or job status transitions, or which examine the ways in
which changes in stress and well-being is conceptualized and
assessed.
Volume 18 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being is
focused on the stress and well-being related to Entrepreneurship
and Small Businesses. This volume focuses on entrepreneurial and
small business owners; stress, health, and well-being as it relates
to personal, work, and success outcomes. The literature linking
stress with entrepreneurship and small business has been somewhat
scattered to date in that stress has been treated as an antecedent
of decisions to create new ventures, a frequent outcome experienced
by entrepreneurs and small business owners (or self-employed
businesses), and a moderator of the entrepreneurial process. We
attempt to resolve some of the inconsistences theoretically and to
better frame future research in this important area of study. We
have seven chapters that cover topics from theory-building to
context in small businesses to utilizing resources. We have divided
our seven chapters into three sections. In the first section, we
include three chapters that examine new theories, frameworks and
future research agendas in entrepreneurship. In the second section,
we have two chapters that examine contexts, specifically,
heterogeneity and non-family membership in small businesses. In the
final section, we have chapters that examine the important role of
resources in entrepreneurship. We believe this volume offers
critical analyses of research on stress and entrepreneurship as
well new frameworks for future research.
Volume 21 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being focuses
on stress and well-being as it pertains to strategic management and
decision-making. In the past few decades, the strategic leadership
of firms has been faced with unprecedented challenges in terms of
technological changes, economic and political crises, and radical
shifts in the workplace owing to health crises. These events have
highlighted the need to understand the consequences of stress as a
factor impacting strategic decisions. At the same time, firms are
increasingly realizing the need to account for the stress and
well-being of their employees, their customers, and their
communities as factors influencing the ability of their businesses
to flourish in a sustainable manner. Chapters in this volume cover
a range of topics including: How stress and well-being can
influence the decision-making and effectiveness of higher
management teams. How organizational changes such as
mergers/acquisitions or downsizing might impact the stress and
well-being of both leaders and followers. Strategic initiatives
that might directly or indirectly promote the well-being of
organizational members or customers. CEO mental health and its
consequences for strategy and organizational effectiveness.
Strategic decision-making in times of crisis. Highlighting how both
leader and follower stress and well-being can serve as antecedents
and consequences of strategic actions and initiatives, or even be a
core concern of strategic plans, Stress and Well-Being at the
Strategic Level spotlights the importance of stress and well-being
for organizations, their leaders, and the individuals who are
impacted by their decisions.
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