... Organizations can reduce incivility by supporting employees facing WFC through stress management interventions and POS-enhancing human resource practices. Promoting support structures may buffer cognitive overload and improve workplace behavior. Originality/value This study offers a novel moderated...

..., they are now characterised by overcrowding, sanitation stress and noise pollution. These issues have effect on vulnerable groups like women, children and the elderly, yet remain underexamined in mental health literature. Design/methodology/approach This research adopts a qualitative ethnographic approach...

...Abigail Gregory; Susan Milner; Jan Windebank; Marc Grau‐Grau Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the academic literature in two ways. Firstly, the paper will analyse the impact of the financial crisis on the level of flexibility, autonomy and stress of Spanish employees. Secondly, it aims...

...Emaj Uddin Purpose Social structural and cultural theories suggest that social stress induced from socio‐cultural status patterns varies across the world's cultures. The purpose of the study is to compare subjective social stress in connection with objective socio‐cultural status patterns among...

...Emaj Uddin Purpose Social stress and alcohol/arrack drinking are interrelated and vary across the sub cultures or cultures around the world. This study aims to examine relationships between social stress and arrack drinking patterns among Muslim, Hindu, Santaland Oraon communities in Rasulpur...

... cultural changes”. Carolan McLarney can be contacted at: cmclarney@mgmt.dal.ca, mclarney@dal.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Elder care Stress Flexible working hours Social policy United States of America This paper deals with the toll that elder care takes on those...

... on the street (Aoki, 2003). My research strategy consisted of bringing into play three social science approaches – comprising concepts such as stigma, pollution, family stress, total institutions, and continuity principle – and proceeded to explore their value in contributing to develop an institutional...

... immune deficiency syndrome Togo Africa Carers Depression Stress The HIV epidemic hit Africa hard in the past decade and a half. Although the true extent of the impact of the epidemic is unknown, some African countries report higher incidence and prevalence rates than others (UNAIDS, 2002...

...Paul Bellaby Explanation of sickness, injury and absence at work frequently turns on “stress” and the individual's ability to “cope” with stress. A critique of the underlying ideology and science of stress and coping discourse (SCD) is presented. An alternative sociological model is put forward...