...George Halkos; Dimitrios Bousinakis Purpose This study aims to investigate the effects of stress and job satisfaction on the functioning of a company. It seeks to focus on factors affecting stress and job satisfaction such as number of work hours, good relations between management and employees...

...Dean Juniper Leisure counselling is a fresh and, as yet, relatively underdeveloped, therapeutic approach to a range of emotional stressors, with work‐stress prominent amongst them. Having identified a triad of approach strategies: distraction, anticipation and confrontation, this study seeks...

... Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and subsequent regulations,employers have a statutory duty to safeguard the psychological health of their employees, but Pat McGuiness, author of the report, argues that current thinking on tackling workplace stress puts employers in a no-win...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Stress Empowerment Absenteeism Keywords Stress, Empowerment, Absenteeism The Health and Safety Executive report that 67 million days are lost per year due to absenteeism. Of these days, 60 per cent are thought to be stress related. This makes...

...Shirley Daniels Employee Assistance Programmes are designed to recognize the interaction between people’s domestic and working lives and to offer confidential counselling to staff to address personal or other problems, including work‐related stress, that may be affecting their performance. Explains...

...Larry D. Brandon; R. Anthony Inman Examines the trend in productivity improvement and the concurrent increase in stress‐related incapacity. Hypothesises a possible connection between productivity improvement techniques and stress,focusing on a number of studies examining stress in the workplace...

...T. Foot Discusses the nature of stress and methods of stress management. Considers behaviour and lifestyle as factors in causing stress and provides a questionnaire to test managerial skill in recognizing stress. States that stress management is the re‐education of people to use existing coping...