...Jeff Grout Outlines the results of a survey into “Management Issues for the Nineties”, the most striking finding from which concerned stress. Examines the nature of stress and concludes with ten golden rules for effective stress management. © MCB UP Limited 1994 In a business culture...

... that welfare officers recruited by that method were usually male. Employee counselling Management Police Self‐development Stress Welfare Women © MCB UP Limited 1994 Changes in society, promoting greater career opportunity and mobility for women, meant that more females were attracted...

...James Storan Introduces necessary rules for balancing work and leisure time. Defines “playaholism” as leisure time that becomes as stressed as working. Suggests methods of balancing differing forms of leisure time to produce a period that is totally relaxing and recreational. Provides a playaholic...

...Sally‐Ann Huson Discusses the relationship between stress and performance. Provides a human function curve of related symptoms. Explains the most common stressors including change. Offers advice on looking after yourself physically and emotionally. Concludes that with well‐thought‐out and planned...

...Elizabeth Sidney Discusses counselling in management with reference to appraisal and stress factors. Defines modern stress points including new technology,privatisation and relocation. Calls for counselling to be legitimised in management as a necessary part of the task. © MCB UP Limited 1991...

...Teresa A Griffith; Herbert S Kindler Describes a training strategy created by the American Association of Retired Persons to assist staff in the relocation of its Western headquarters. Programme was designed to provide stress management workshops and to initiate a new management development...

...Andrew Purveys Discusses the TM Corporate Development Programme, a new initiative set up to sell the idea that transcendental meditation is good for business. Looks at a number of independent studies comparing the stress levels of meditating groups with those of non‐meditating groups. Stresses...