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Preventing Stress, Improving Productivity

Published 16 February 2010
Citations150

TL;DR

The aim of this review is to improve work, health and productivity through stress prevention in organisations and to provide a methodology for evaluating the costs and benefits of stress Prevention in organisations.

Abstract

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Foreword. Introduction: Improving work, health and productivity through stress prevention. Workplace stress and stress prevention in Europe. Costs and benefits of stress prevention in organisations: Review and new methodology. Finland: Organisational well-being. Ten years of research and development in a forest industry corporation. The Netherlands: A hospital, 'Healthy Working for Health'. Belgium: A pharmaceutical company. United Kingdom: Evaluation of a stress management ptogramme in the public sector. Denmark: Self-rule on route 166. An intervention study among bus drivers. Sweden: Mail processing. Germany: Reduction of stress by health circles. Ireland: Stress prevention in an airport management company. Portugal: Preventing occupational stress in a bank organisation. Greece: Stress management in the health care sector. Italy: A school of nursing. Stress prevention: European countries and European cases compared.

Keywords

Business, Management and Accounting