Cary L Cooper: 15 books
by Sue Cartwright, Cary L. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Mergers, acquisitions, and alliances continue to be almost an everyday feature of the contemporary business scene, yet at least half prove to be unsuccessful. The authors show the contribution that psychology can make to our understanding of the merger phenomena - how it affects organizational performance,...
by Sir Cary L. Cooper, Sydney Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions stands out from the competition due to its focus on three key characteristics: studies from scholars in different countries, with different research questions, relying on different theoretical perspectives. Such a broad and inclusive approach to mergers and acquisitions...
Organizational Stress
A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2001
This book examines stress in organizational contexts. The authors review the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its...
WELL-BEING
Productivity and Happiness at Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations. As with its predecessor, this new edition is remarkably timely. It explores the latest findings in the research on wellbeing and offers practical guidelines to the...
The Aging Workforce Handbook
Individual, Organizational and Societal Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This volume critically reviews the phenomenon of the aging workforce, adopting an interdisciplinary perspective that examines the challenges raised on an individual, organizational and societal level. Core issues framing the concept of the aging workforce and its consequences are presented by a team...
Risky Business
Psychological, Physical and Financial Costs of High Risk Behavior in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
What are the financial and psychological costs of risky behavior in business to the individuals concerned and their organizations? Risky Business provides a perspective on addictive behaviors such as gambling, drug taking and even addiction to work; criminal behaviors such as theft and corruption;...
by Paul Sparrow, Cary L. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Challenges Facing the Employment Relationship in Future Organizations addresses the issues of change within employee relationships resulting from the impact of factors such as:
* international competitive pressures
* technological change
* changing individual expectations and behaviours
The...
Work Stress and Coping
Forces of Change and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
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In Work Stress and Coping the authors provide an historical account of workplace stress, taking a broad approach by integrating the macro forces impacting the micro, and highlighting what the research in the field tells...
by Ian Rothmann, Cary L. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Psychologists have been fascinated by the world of work, and the changing relationship between people, technology and the workplace, since the onset of the industrial revolution. And in providing a complete and contemporary overview of this evolving and fascinating field, the new edition of Work and...
Coping, Personality and the Workplace
Responding to Psychological Crisis and Critical Events
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
How an individual responds to crises and critical incidents at work, both immediately and subsequent to the event, is heavily influenced both by personality characteristics and their use of coping strategies. These can, in turn, be affected by levels of education, gender and even the profession within...
by Ritsa Fotinatos-Ventouratos, Cary L. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The global economic crisis of 2008 caused the collapse of the world’s financial institutions, large-scale unemployment, the devaluing of housing stocks leading to mortgage defaults and left many countries in debt, unable to meet their financial obligations. The consequences of this in the workplace...
by Konstantinos Perrotis, Cary L. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The field of Organizational Psychology and Occupational Stress is complex and multifaceted. Many efforts have been made by several authors to write books that would have assisted employees in becoming more satisfied, relaxed and thus happier with their work, but such a result seems difficult and complicated...
Executive Burnout
Eastern and Western Concepts, Models and Approaches for Mitigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Never before has the world witnessed the phenomenon of severe stress and burnout on such a large scale as in recent years. Globalization, technological advances and economic meltdown have brought about a plethora of unprecedented challenges for industry and organizations across the globe. Consequently,...
Managing Health and Wellbeing in the Public Sector
A Guide to Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
As governments throughout the world experience increasing fiscal challenges, the pressures on public sectors to streamline services and harness technological advances is unprecedented. Many have undergone huge budgetary cuts as a result, but what are the effects of this intense organisational change...
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