书目名称 | Work and Mental Health in Social Context |
编辑 | Mark Tausig,Rudy Fenwick |
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概述 | combines nineteenth century writings on connection between work and well being with contemporary views on organizational sociology and institutional environments.develops a unified framework that exte |
丛书名称 | Social Disparities in Health and Health Care |
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描述 | .Anyone who has ever had a job has probably experienced work-related stress at some point or another. For many workers, however, job-related stress is experienced every day and reaches more extreme levels. Four in ten American workers say that their jobs are “very” or “extremely” stressful. Job stress is recognized as an epidemic in the workplace, and its economic and health care costs are staggering: by some estimates over $ 1 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism and worker turnover, and at least that much in treating its health effects, ranging from anxiety and psychological depression to cardiovascular disease and hypertension..Why are so many American workers so stressed out by their jobs? Many psychologists say stress is the result of a mismatch between the characteristics of a job and the personality of the worker. Many management consultants propose reducing stress by “redesigning” jobs and developing better individual strategies for “coping” with their stress. But, these explanations are not the whole story. They don’t explain why some jobs and some occupations are more stressful than other jobs and occupations, regardless of the personalities and “coping st |
出版日期 | Book 2011 |
关键词 | a sociological analysis of job stress; connection between mental health and job stress; economic and h |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0625-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4614-2973-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4614-0625-9Series ISSN 2468-6778 Series E-ISSN 2468-6786 |
issn_series | 2468-6778 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Busines |