Preventing Stress in Organizations: How to Develop Positive Managers

Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Joanna Yarker, Rachel Lewis
Wiley-Blackwell
£29.99

PM Rating: 5/5

Stress and stress management are major issues in many organisations. Pressures to perform in an increasingly demanding market place create stress at all levels, leading to a whole range of issues for the individual and employer alike. Preventing Stress in Organizations by Donaldson-Feilder, Yarker and Lewis is a refreshingly clear description of the problems of stress and gives potential solutions to some of the issues it raises.

Most works on stress look at the problem from the individual’s point of view, describing strategies to cope with stress, and working from the assumption that stress is a given within the working environment. This book is different; it looks at how the organisation can control and reduce the stress on staff using good management techniques. Stress management is not seen as a standalone issue, but an integral part of sound management practice. The authors have completed a major study on stress and stress management and have identified the specific management competencies relating to stress management in its broadest sense – and describe how these can be embedded into normal organisational behaviour.

This is a very practical book, useful, and perhaps indispensable, to managers at all levels. The narrative leads the reader clearly through the theoretical and research background to the detailed guidance on how to develop positive management approaches to reduce or eliminate stress from the organisation.