Strategic Pressure Management: Organizational Approaches

Author: Valerie J. Sutherland
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Recently, in many European countries, stress has suddenly become one of the main reasons for employee sick leave, a situation that has drawn great attention from companies worldwide. Clearly, stress has become an inseparable issue from the organization. However, why is it that most of the books on "coping with stress" found in bookstores fail to connect this issue with organizational management activities, treating it merely as a problem to be solved by individuals? The book "Strategic Stress Management" takes a unique approach, explaining its theme: companies can improve work performance by adopting comprehensive organizational strategies to identify and alleviate employee stress.