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This book is a valuable, comprehensive and unique reference text on
Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), a new work stress theory. It
proposes a new PSC theory concerning the corporate climate for
workers' psychological health, its origins and implications for
work stress, and provides a critique of current research and
theories. It provides a comprehensive review of all PSC studies to
date. The chapters discuss state-of-the-art empirical evidence
testing PSC theory in relation to management roles, organisational
resilience, corruption, organisational status, cultural
perspectives, illegitimate tasks, high PSC work groups, PSC
variability in work groups, etc. They investigate outcomes such as
psychological distress, emotional exhaustion, depression, worry,
engagement, health, cognitive decline, personal initiative,
boredom, cynicism, sickness absence, and productivity loss, in
various workplace settings across many countries. This unique book
allows practitioners to rapidly update practical measures,
benchmarks and processes, and provides students and trainees with
an introduction to PSC and important concepts and methods,
quantitative and qualitative, in occupational health with leads to
further sources. Students as well as experts on occupational health
and safety, human resource management, occupational health
psychology, organisational psychology and practitioners, unions and
policy makers will find this book highly informative. It covers
relevant materials for undergraduate and postgraduate education,
drawing upon the concepts, topics and methods (diary, multilevel,
longitudinal, qualitative, data linkage) within the
multidisciplinary occupational health area.
The past several decades of rapid organizational change and global
economic activity beseech a fresh understanding of work conditions
and mental health across all nations and regions. This volume
addresses psychosocial factors at work, legislation, frameworks,
research innovations and common perceptions in the Asia Pacific
countries. It presents new research on psychosocial factors at work
from an Asia Pacific perspective, introducing exciting new research
on workaholism, bullying, work-life balance and conflict, work
demands classifications, and psychosocial safety climate. Insights
regarding workplace psychosocial factors, worker health and
well-being have evolved mainly within North American and European
cultural contexts and developed industrial countries. This state of
the art account of knowledge development in the Asia Pacific region
will stimulate new insights for researchers and policy makers to
improve the quality of workers’ lives worldwide. "This very
informative book highlights the significance and uniqueness of job
stress problems encountered by workers of different countries in
the Asia Pacific region. Occupational health researchers all around
the world will find this book a great inspiration for future
research." Yawen Cheng, ScD, Institute of Health Policy and
Management, Taiwan “Initiatives and interventions reported from
collaborative projects present useful hints for filling gaps in
policies and practices for managing psychosocial risk factors in
diverse work-life situations in the Asia Pacific region”. Dr.
Kazutaka Kogi, President, International Commission of Occupational
Health
The past several decades of rapid organizational change and global
economic activity beseech a fresh understanding of work conditions
and mental health across all nations and regions. This volume
addresses psychosocial factors at work, legislation, frameworks,
research innovations and common perceptions in the Asia Pacific
countries. It presents new research on psychosocial factors at work
from an Asia Pacific perspective, introducing exciting new research
on workaholism, bullying, work-life balance and conflict, work
demands classifications, and psychosocial safety climate. Insights
regarding workplace psychosocial factors, worker health and
well-being have evolved mainly within North American and European
cultural contexts and developed industrial countries. This state of
the art account of knowledge development in the Asia Pacific region
will stimulate new insights for researchers and policy makers to
improve the quality of workers' lives worldwide. "This very
informative book highlights the significance and uniqueness of job
stress problems encountered by workers of different countries in
the Asia Pacific region. Occupational health researchers all around
the world will find this book a great inspiration for future
research." Yawen Cheng, ScD, Institute of Health Policy and
Management, Taiwan "Initiatives and interventions reported from
collaborative projects present useful hints for filling gaps in
policies and practices for managing psychosocial risk factors in
diverse work-life situations in the Asia Pacific region". Dr.
Kazutaka Kogi, President, International Commission of Occupational
Health
This book is a valuable, comprehensive and unique reference text on
Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), a new work stress theory. It
proposes a new PSC theory concerning the corporate climate for
workers' psychological health, its origins and implications for
work stress, and provides a critique of current research and
theories. It provides a comprehensive review of all PSC studies to
date. The chapters discuss state-of-the-art empirical evidence
testing PSC theory in relation to management roles, organisational
resilience, corruption, organisational status, cultural
perspectives, illegitimate tasks, high PSC work groups, PSC
variability in work groups, etc. They investigate outcomes such as
psychological distress, emotional exhaustion, depression, worry,
engagement, health, cognitive decline, personal initiative,
boredom, cynicism, sickness absence, and productivity loss, in
various workplace settings across many countries. This unique book
allows practitioners to rapidly update practical measures,
benchmarks and processes, and provides students and trainees with
an introduction to PSC and important concepts and methods,
quantitative and qualitative, in occupational health with leads to
further sources. Students as well as experts on occupational health
and safety, human resource management, occupational health
psychology, organisational psychology and practitioners, unions and
policy makers will find this book highly informative. It covers
relevant materials for undergraduate and postgraduate education,
drawing upon the concepts, topics and methods (diary, multilevel,
longitudinal, qualitative, data linkage) within the
multidisciplinary occupational health area.
Work related stress represents a huge cost for worker health and
-productivity and is broadly regarded as an important social
-determinant of global health.Over the past five decades, knowledge
of the the causes of work-related illnesses and injuries has grown
dramatically. Unfortunately, understanding how to use this
knowledge for psychosocial risk prevention and intervention has
failed to keep pace.The Australian Workplace Barometer (AWB)
project was developed in order to provide national benchmarks
needed to set best practice standards in the area of worker
psychological health and wellbeing. The results as published in
this book:Provide nationally representative data on psychosocial
risk levels and working conditionsBuild upon existing knowledge and
understanding of psychosocial risk factors such as bullying and
harassment, and work-family conflictInvestigate relationships
between psychosocial risk and workplace outcomes such as employee
health and productivityDetermine the cost of poor employee
wellbeing to businesses based on aspects such as depression,
absenteeism and presenteeismIdentify industries and occupations at
risk, andProvide evidence to support strategies for prevention and
intervention.This book provides a step towards social action and
work environments that will stimulate problem solving, creativity
and innovation at work rather than despair through compromised
health and wellbeing.
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