Includes bibliographical references and index.

Measures of coping with stress at work : a review and critique / Philip Dewe -- Empirical versus theoretical approaches to the measurement of coping : a comparison using the ways of coping questionnaire and the cybernetic coping scale / Jeffrey R. Edwards and A.J. Baglioni, Jr -- The self-regulation of experience : openness and construction / Michael Rosenbaum -- Coping with acute workplace disasters / Catherine Loughlin and Julian Barling -- Work, family and psychological functioning : conflict or synergy? / Esther R. Greenglass -- Women's ways of coping with employment stress : a feminist contextual analysis / Bonita C. Long and Robin S. Cox -- Organizational change : adaptive coping and the need for training / Michael P. Leiter -- Coping with subjective health problems in organizations / Hege R. Eriksen, Miranda Olff and Holger Ursin -- Organizational healthiness : work-related stress and employee health / Tom Cox and Louise Thomson -- Organizational-level interventions designed to reduce occupational stressors / Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen -- Coping with the stress of new organizational challenges : the role of the employee assistance programme / John R. Berridge and Cary L. Cooper -- Contemporary organizational realities and professional efficacy : downsizing, reorganization and transition / Ronald J. Burke and Michael P. Leiter -- Employee adjustment to an organizational change : a stress and coping perspective / Deborah J. Terry and Victor J. Callan -- Coping with work--future directions from the debates of the past / Philip Dewe, Tom Cox and Michael Leiter.

This book looks at the consequences of ineffective coping at work and the results of not coping on the organisation and the individuals themselves. The authors look at the factors that cause stress and what organisations can do to reduce them.