Special issue on workplace stress and wellbeing across cultures: research and practice
Article Type: Call for papers From: Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, Volume 15, Issue 4.
Guest Editors: Ronald J. Burke and Steven Poelmans
Researchers and practitioners in the developed, industrialized world have examined the relationship of a number of work stressors and various work outcomes and indicators of psychological and physical wellbeing for several decades. As organizations and business becomes increasingly global, interest in these relationships in developing countries is beginning to emerge. Work stressors have included workload, work–family and family–work conflict, increasing work intensity, leadership styles, role conflict,organizational downsizing and restructuring, and organizational mergers;outcomes have typically considered job satisfaction, commitment, psychological health, work–family balance and withdrawal behaviours. Doing business across cultures presents unique challenges; managerial behaviours, expectations and values across cultures are likely to be different. In addition, countries are likely to have their own cultural and societal values that determine appropriate workplace attitudes and behaviours and the place of work in the broader society.
Cross Cultural Management is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal focusing on work stresses and wellbeing across cultures to shed light on these issues. It will consider both theoretical and empirical papers. Authors can address, but are not limited to, the following:
To what extent do research findings in developed/industrialized countries apply to developing countries?
What role, if any, is played by cultural/societal values in understanding the work stressor–strain relationship?
Are concepts and measures widely used in developed countries relevant in all countries?
Do unique stressors and strains exist? How might these be identified?
Does working across cultures create unique stressors?
Do coping and social support processes function in the same way across cultures?
All submissions to this special issue will be put through Cross Cultural Management's formal review process.
For information on format, interested authors should consult Cross Cultural Management's submissions style guide available at: www.emeraldinsight.com/ccm.htm
The deadline for submissions is 15 February 2009.
Please submit manuscripts in MS-Word format by e-mail to: purchase reprints of this article please e-mail:
Ronald J. BurkeSchulich School of Business,York University,Toronto, CanadaE-mail: rburke@schulich.yorku.ca
